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Transhumanist

Postby moogdroog » March 24th, 2009, 7:03 pm

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Re: Transhumanist

Postby archenland_knight » March 24th, 2009, 7:25 pm

As a software developer by developer by trade, I'm all for advancing technology. And the potential shown by the advances in prosthetics are amazing. I sincerely believe, that should Christ's return be delayed much longer, the day will come when we will have people wishing to remove perfectly healthy body parts to have them replaced with superior mechanical replacements. We are very close already.

Pretty soon, the only thing unrealistic about the "Six Million Dollar Man" will be the price tag ... it won't cost anywhere near $6,000,000.00.

However, mechanical replacements are one thing. When you start messing around with the human genome trying to produce a genuinely mentally superior species ... a "superior race", or "master race" ... well, the pitfalls should be painfully obvious.

I also can't help thinking that if one takes this sort of thing too far, Genesis 11:1 - 9 is going to be replayed all over again.
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
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Re: Transhumanist

Postby Stanley Anderson » March 24th, 2009, 10:18 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: Transhumanist

Postby rusmeister » March 28th, 2009, 2:36 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Re: Transhumanist

Postby a_hnau » March 28th, 2009, 7:54 am

Presume one or two folk here may have seen the series (think it's the BBC) on Darwin, commemorating his bicentenary? One program followed Darwin's ideas through the application of eugenics in the United States and on into Hitler's Germany. Personally I think we already have eugenics firmly in place in assisted-fertility treatments, and it will only get more obvious as techniques advance.
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Re: Transhumanist

Postby moogdroog » April 1st, 2009, 4:54 pm

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Re: Transhumanist

Postby Mornche Geddick » October 4th, 2009, 4:09 pm

Well, I can only say, I'm a scientist and I've never heard of them.
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