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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?  Read More ›
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Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›
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Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

A life of meaning is what we truly need, and perhaps what we most deeply desire. Read More ›
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John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›
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Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›
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No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›
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The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›
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Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›

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