Christianity’s Rigged Debate with Transhumanism

In Steve Donaldson & Ron Cole-Turner, Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church: Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 75-93 (2018)
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Today Christianity is maligned by secular transhumanists as the arch enemy of scientific rationality. This is a bizarre claim since Christianity provided the foundation for scientific discovery and technological progress since Antiquity. Only recently has Christianity come to be associated with irrationality, and only because a number of political and philosophical maneuvers removed Christianity from scientific and political power. Now Christianity is relegated to ethics—imagine the modern bioethicist—while science marches forward. As long as it remains on the sidelines of scientific progress, Christianity is easily silenced and villainized, and its unity with science shattered. To counter this trend, Christians need to strengthen their educational infrastructure by recovering the traditional theological vision that sees science as a vocation and technology as a channel of grace.

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