[extropy-chat] Anti-transhumanist op-ed: Is the world ready for a superboy - or a dogboy?

[David Harris]

The Discovery Institute (http://www.discovery.org/) is in Southern 
Caliornia and is the institution that brought us the concept of 
"Intelligent Design".  The ACLU, in the Dover, Pennsylvania, school 
board case, points out that Intelligent Design seems to be a way of 
avoiding the word "God" in what otherwise looks like Creationism, which 
has been kept out of schools by court decisions on separation of church 
and state.

The Discovery Institute folks are responsible for the "Wedge strategy" 
(http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html), a plan to integrate 
Intelligent Design into science classes and gradually separate popular 
thinking into a choice between God and materialism/evolution/science. 
To many religions, that is a needlessly narrow choice.

I'm working on an essay suggesting that the border between science and 
supernatural religions can and should be drawn somewhat differently than 
current usage.

I've been doing the computer work for Darwin Day Celebration 
(http://DarwinDay.org), very much the opposite of the Discovery 
Institute, except they have much more money and we have real science on 
our side.  We promote Darwin's birthday ("Darwin Day") as a celebration 
of science and humanity, much like "Newtonmas" in spirit.

   - David Harris, Palo Alto, California


Neil H. wrote:
> The Dallas Morning News has an anti-transhumanist op-ed by a senior 
> fellow at the Discovery Institute (a conservative Christian think-tank).
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