| WagnerPaiva said: Another abomination of God´s creation and a sign of the coming apocalipse. It will happen, as predicted in the Revelation book, it will be a bad deal though, "man will seek death but it will flee from him". It will actually be part of the sign of the beast. If you take the deal of everlasting biological life, you are out of the kingdom of heaven, not even Jesus Christ will redeem you. |
You serious, bro? The apocalypse is coming because we're coming to understand how the human body works and what causes you to age? There's a cause behind everything that functions in our body. Pituitary gland starting the process of puberty. Sperm and egg making a zygote. Brain sending electrical signals to the body to make it do what it wants. You think they knew about that stuff in Biblical times? So how is it an abomination to be able to manipulate them? Oh...those things I just mentioned that we know how to manipulate aren't abominations (in vitro fertilization for people who can't conceive naturally, HGH therapy for kids who don't grow during the adolescence phase, etc), but this other thing that we know how to manipulate is? Looks like "abominations" are pretty arbitrary. Not to mention there are already creatures that are biologically immortal, so how is it an "abomination" when some of "God's creation" were, well, "created" that way? Death will not "flee from him" in the scenario of biological immortality, either. Jumping off a cliff will fix that right up. So that's also wrong.
Don't let such arbitration/demonstrably false teachings stymie scientific progress. It's selfish and it holds us (as a species) back.
Now, OT, a hell nay from me. After a while....I'd just want to be done. Living on forever and ever (and this would apply to the guy I quoted as well, since I'm sure he believes in an afterlife) is not something that's desirable. Can you imagine living a billion years? A trillion? A Googol? It's too much. In a practical sense, still a nay from me. First off, the only way I can go out is to get shot in the head, hit by a bus, get cancer, etc? That's horrible. And secondly, we are limited in our resources. There's only so much food, water, electricity, shelter, etc. that can be used. If people started being (biologically) immortal, we'd run out of resources to use.
