Thought Quotient

Here’s an interesting story on CNN.com today,

Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil predicts human immortality is no more than 20 years away.

A couple of observations:
1) A 56-year-old person has never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ? A brilliant person such as this has failed to see what little children can understand?
2) Sometimes we are more right than we realize at times…

Lee Silver, a Princeton biologist, said he’d love to believe in the future as Kurzweil sees it, but the problem is, humans are involved.

The instinct to preserve individuality, and to gain advantage for yourself and children, would survive any breakthrough into biological immortality — which Silver doesn’t think is possible. The gap between the haves and have-nots would widen and Kurzweil’s vision of a united humanity would become ever more elusive, he said.

“I think it would require a change in human nature,” Silver said, “and I don’t think people want to do that.”

This is human nature
This is what He planned
When He put our hearts inside
When He made these hands
We are here to reach for Him
Never letting go
This is all we need to have
All we need to know

And we can hold on to money
Hold on to fame
We can hold on to glory
And the honor of a name
We can hold to a thread
At the end of a rope
But if we hold on to Jesus
We are holding on to hope

- Twila Paris, Hold On