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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTIAN LEADERS: Time running out to influence debate on transhumanism

AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTIAN LEADERS: Time running out to influence debate on transhumanism: "In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism, whose vision is supported by a growing list of U.S. military advisors, bioethicists, law professors, and academics, intends the use of biotechnology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps— as Joel Garreau, in his bestselling book Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls."

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