Striving for immortality…
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.”
