Tag: Tower of Babel
John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism
Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour.
Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths
Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution.
Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel
Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem.
Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death
Dreams of god-like immortality achieved through uploading the mind have a serious drawback, one among others. A computer operates algorithmically, strictly so, whereas the mind does not.