The Transhumanism "Evolution"
Transhumanists are largely, if not all, atheists seeking to "improve God's design" and solely focused on that final step to get God out of the way and to be completely separated from HIs guiding hand.
Transhumanism should be rejected by Bible-believing followers of Jesus as an abomination
The formulation of the implantable "chips" that can be used to modify the body function and especially to control the mind and affect both perception and "performance" are fundamentally just another example of those made in the image of God attempting to do things their way and to go it alone in defiance toward a dependant and abiding relationship with Jesus.
Zoltan Istvan is formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, secular and political-themed articles for major media, including The New York Times. He believes transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in this decade. Istvan is the author of The Transhumanist Wager, a philosophical science fiction novel.
Istvan's definition for transhumanism is as follows:
Transhumanism is the international movement of using science and technology to radically change the human being and experience. Its primary goal is to deliver and embrace a utopian techno-optimistic world—a world that consists of biohackers, cyborgists, roboticists, life extension advocates, cryonicists, Singularitarians, and other science-devoted people.
Transhumanists want more guarantees than just death, consumerism, and offspring. Much More. They want to be better, smarter, stronger—perhaps even perfect and immortal if science can make them that way.
“The idea is that you take a gene, say for pig noses, or ostrich anuses, or aardvark tongue, and you paste that into a human sperm, a human egg, a human zygote. A baby starts to form.” And: “We could let it flow into our anatomy, and these people––who yes, are humans––should be appreciated for who and what they are, after they are forced to be born in a really radically strange way.” - Adam Zaretsky
Adam Zaretsky is an artist, or self-described "bioartist," working as a research affiliate in Arnold Demain's Laboratory for Industrial Microbiology and Fermentation in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Biology.
Finally, it comes as no surprise that transhumanists are largely, if not all, atheists (or as Mr. Zoltan Istvan says: “I’m an atheist, therefore I’m a transhumanist.”
In the end, transhumanism is the final step to get God out of the way. It would be the continuation of what Richard Weaver wrote about in “Ideas Have Consequences”:
Instead of seeing nature, the world and life overall as a means to get to know God, humans in the last centuries have become accustomed to seeing the world as something that is only there for humans to take and use for their own pleasures.
TRANSHUMANISM WOULD BE THE FINAL STEP OF THIS PROCESS: THE CONQUEST OF DEATH.
You don’t have to be religious to find this abhorrent. As we have seen, it would be the end to all religion, to human cooperation overall, in all likelihood to liberty itself, and even the good-bye to humanity. It would be the starting point of the ultimate dystopia.
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