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 |  Subject: Engineering Eden: Medical Doctor Examines The Quest To Manufacture Eternal Life  Thu Jun 08, 2017 6:51 am | |
| Engineering Eden: Medical Doctor Examines The Quest To Manufacture Eternal LifeJune 8, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  If you’re like most people, you may associate the phrase “eternal life” with religion: The promise that we can live forever if we just believe in God. You probably don’t associate the phrase with an image of scientists working in a lab, peering at worms through microscopes or mice skittering through boxes. But you should. The quest for eternal life has only recently begun to step out from behind the pews and into the petri dish […] From a secular perspective, the choice seems obvious. But from a religious perspective, weighing faith and science is not as clear. It’s not even clear whether a choice must be made. If you’re Mormon, for example, you believe that humans should and will become Gods themselves, a view consistent with transhumanist ambitions to take human capabilities and nature into their own hands. From a Christian perspective, too, there is no inherent contradiction between religious principles and the use of science to extend our life spans or change who and what we fundamentally are. Francis Schaeffer, credited with launching evangelicals and fundamentalists into politics in the late 1970s, said that if he were offered a pill to stop aging, he would take it in a heartbeat. “Because mankind’s duty is – as much as it’s within our power – to undo the work of The Fall,” he said.(READ MORE) |
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