[ExI] Cryonics a theory or belief?

[Bret Kulakovich]

Test - sorry to send a test, but I got a bounce last time. I think it  
is my host.

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On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:35 PM, citta437 at aol.com wrote:

> Lee wrote:
> "Absolutely. On the most charitable reading, Terry might be saying  
> that
> cryonics is the only preservation of human beings considered one-by- 
> one
> as they die, but like John, I doubt that this was all that Terry  
> meant."
>> Also, I don't think cryonics should be compared to religion or seen  
>> as
>> competing with it.
>
> Certainly not,  I agree totally. In this wise, cryonics is best
> described as
> a scientific hypothesis. No one I've ever heard says that cryonics is
> salvation
> because some angel told them so, or that it's got the backing of a
> deity.
> On the contrary.  You'll also never find a cryonicist---unlike the
> religious
> types---ever claiming to know that it will work  with 100%  
> probability.
>
>> A handful of scientists with rather limited funds have worked very
> hard
>> to get cryonics where it is now (and it still has a long ways to go).
>
> ___________
>
> Hi, I would not demean cryonics as a cult but since you described
> cryonics as a scientific hypothesis/theory where are the supporting
> evidence/facts that can be tested to work as proposed by your theory?
> The proposition it would work five hundred years from now is a mere
> guess. Why wait that long if you cannot test it now?
>
> Genetic engineering has been successful in many scientific experiments
> why not cryonics? If you can show the success now, I imagine you would
> get a lot of funding from all sources both private and public.
>
> Terry
>
> Terry
>
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