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Transhumanist

PostPosted: March 24th, 2009, 7:03 pm
by moogdroog

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: March 24th, 2009, 7:25 pm
by archenland_knight
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.

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: March 24th, 2009, 10:18 pm
by Stanley Anderson

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: March 28th, 2009, 2:36 am
by rusmeister

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: March 28th, 2009, 7:54 am
by a_hnau
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.

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: April 1st, 2009, 4:54 pm
by moogdroog

Re: Transhumanist

PostPosted: October 4th, 2009, 4:09 pm
by Mornche Geddick
Well, I can only say, I'm a scientist and I've never heard of them.