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

[Damien Broderick]

>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