[extropy-chat] C.S. Lewis's Answers to 21st Century Transhumanism

[Samantha Atkins]

Thanks for the great laugh!

On Feb 14, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

>
>> For the rational Christian, it is tempting
>> to dismiss these individuals as nothing
>> more than the lunatic fringe.
>
> Right. For the rational Christian--who holds firm to his or her
> conviction that invisible ghosts are inserted into foetuses, that the
> Infinite Creator of the entire cosmos had a human son whose mother
> remained a virgin, that this same God is actually manifested in the
> form of a piece of dry bread, that humans who act wickedly will
> suffer intolerably forever after their deaths --these transhumanists
> who expect the continued development of science to allow people
> extremely extended healthy and enhanced life must surely seem like
> lunatics from the fringe. After all, who could believe *that* kind of
> nonsense ?
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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