A recent Wired article featured computer scientist and Methuselah Foundation founder Aubrey de Grey . Despite the foundation’s biblical-sounding name, the idea it peddles is anti-biblical. Laudably, de Grey wants to eradicate disease due to aging, but he doesn’t want to stop there. He’s working toward extending life indefinitely. Toward that end, de Grey has started to reorient thinking about the very idea of aging—viewing aging as a disease. From the fountain of youth to the idea of software-based humans , “the impulse for immortality is a deeply human impulse," writes bioethicist C. Ben Mitchell . To try and ameliorate suffering is of great import, but the problem starts when our goals shift toward creating an immortal human race. In " Grey Matters: In the Twilight of Aging, a Twinkle of Hope ," neurologist William Cheshire asks an interesting and important question: "Why does the human brain by its nature yearn for eternity? That the brain would imagine and long for something that its sensory inputs can neither see nor feel is to neuroscience a persistent puzzle. That the mind intuitively knows to reach for something completely beyond its earthly experience is to philosophy a timeless enigma.” Our longing must be because we were designed for eternity by our loving Creator—and deep in our minds we all know it. (Romans 1:18) The push for immortality is nothing short of a quest to become god-like—something Satan has been luring u ...
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A recent Wired article featured computer scientist and Methuselah Foundation founder Aubrey de Grey . Despite the foundation’s biblical-sounding name, the idea it peddles is anti-biblical. Laudably, de Grey wants to eradicate disease due to aging, but he doesn’t want to stop there. He’s working toward extending life indefinitely. Toward that end, de Grey has started to reorient thinking about the very idea of aging—viewing aging as a disease. From the fountain of youth to the idea of software-based humans , “the impulse for immortality is a deeply human impulse," writes bioethicist C. Ben Mitchell . To try and ameliorate suffering is of great import, but the problem starts when our goals shift toward creating an immortal human race. In " Grey Matters: In the Twilight of Aging, a Twinkle of Hope ," neurologist William Cheshire asks an interesting and important question: "Why does the human brain by its nature yearn for eternity? That the brain would imagine and long for something that its sensory inputs can neither see nor feel is to neuroscience a persistent puzzle. That the mind intuitively knows to reach for something completely beyond its earthly experience is to philosophy a timeless enigma.” Our longing must be because we were designed for eternity by our loving Creator—and deep in our minds we all know it. (Romans 1:18) The push for immortality is nothing short of a quest to become god-like—something Satan has been luring u ...