Does God do cyber warfare?

In 2011, abortionists were upset that when iPhone users asked Siri, the voice response program, about abortion in their cities, Siri offered in her mellow tones the names of adoption centers. Last fall they were still upset.

Apple in 2011 told The New York Times that the fix would soon be in, but TechCrunch reported yesterday that Siri and Apple Maps have still been steering people toward life. University of California, San Francisco, researcher Alexis Hoffman searched across the country and found Siri was still putting adoption centers at the head of the queue. The horror!

TechCrunch quoted one abortion proponent saying, “To have that [search result] in your face is inexcusable.” Why? Shouldn’t women be aware that adoption really is an option? The pro-abortion Sea Change Program contacted Apple last November and was apparently irate that the company did not see this as its biggest problem, but it looks like the message has now gotten through. Last night I asked Siri about abortion in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and several other large cities, and received the politically correct answer: Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood …

In one city, though, crisis pregnancy centers still came up first, and in one other the first four listings were two abortion businesses and two centers counseling against abortion. That last even-handedness, given abortion’s legality, seems fair. No reason we should assume that everyone asking about abortion wants to get one. I’m glad that for five years searchers learned that adoption was a real alternative in their cities. Thank God for five years of glitches. May more come.

One other thought: Maybe these weren’t glitches but intelligent design. Could a pro-life stalwart be working under deep cover at Apple? It’s also not impossible that God played a pro-life prank. After all, in 1 Samuel 5, when the Philistines think they’ve won because they’ve grabbed the Ark of the Covenant and put it in their Ashdod temple as war booty, they find the next day, without human action, that the Philistine idol “Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold.”