Transhumanism

 

      In Genesis 1:10, God created the land and the seas, and he saw that "it was good". After God created the grass, the herbs, the trees, the sun, the moon and the stars he saw that "it was good" in Genesis 1:18. God created the fish and the birds and saw that "it was good" in Genesis 1:21. God made the animals and saw that "it was good". In verse 21, God saw everything he had made and "it was very good". The transhumanist comes along and says no, it is not good enough. We must improve ourselves. We must move from human 1.0 to human 2.0. They believe they have the pathway to accomplish just that.

Artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and gene therapy have become a modern-day Tower of Babel for many elites, powerful men in our world. In Genesis 11, the people built a great tower to reach into the heavens. They sought to make a great name for themselves. In their own way, they wanted to be "like" God in heaven who has the greatest name of all. Bill Gates speaks of "gene editing for good". Ilon Musk believes that we can stop or reverse aging with the right gene codes. With the right DNA sequence, he believes that we can turn a human into a butterfly. Ray Kurzweil, from Google, believes that we can become "eternal" through artificial intelligence. He believes that we can become "godlike" using nanobots or nanotechnology. They are now able to synthesize parts of our DNA through DNA origami. We have GMO foods, but they want GMO people. They want human 2.0.

It reminds me of Grubhub. There is Olive Garden (needed information from the cloud). Grubhub picks the food up and delivers it to your house (nanobots, nanotechnology or hydrogel in your body receive info from the cloud and deliver it to the appropriate cells). And there is you and your house (the cells in your body that process the information).

Can such loftiness be achieved? Can we become "eternal" and "godlike"? God did not permit it at the tower of Babel in Genesis 11. God confounded their language and scattered the people across the earth. In Isaiah 14:12-15, Lucifer tried to become "like the most High". He said, "...I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of god: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." Verse 15 prophecies that this Lucifer will "be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."

Can transhumanists succeed in their lofty goals? DNA/mRNA vaccine studies have failed over the past 15 years. The ferrets and other animals they have used have died because of cytokine storms. The vaccines in Africa and India, backed by Bill Gates, have been a failure. Many women have been sterilized and children born with deformities. Here in America, there are reported vaccine side effects of messed up menstrual cycles, miscarriages, ovaries that do not have viable eggs, testicular pain and sperm that is not mobile or cannot swim.

My son and I went to an Avengers movie. It was the one where Thanos was victorious, and he destroyed a large percentage of the world's population. And of course, nature was green and healthy. He thought the world was then in balance. Bill Gates reminds me of Thanos. Gates is a eugenicist. He is a fan of depopulation. He thinks there are too many people in the world, and we are harming the earth by our existence. I thought Thanos seemed somber about destroying part of the earth's human population. Bill Gates seems to be gleeful about damaging or ending life. The Moderna vaccine is one of the vaccines that is backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The transhumanists believe they have found the way. In John 14:6, Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life...."

As people, we need to value our unique genome. Our DNA makes us uniquely human. Our DNA/RNA makes us unique from anyone else in the world. It is a treasure. It is a gift. We do not need to become partially synthetic. We do not need to become altered. We do not need to strive for eternal life through the perfect DNA sequence. We do not need to become godlike. Let God be God and let us be the humans we were designed to be. Say no to gene therapy and DNA/mRNA vaccines. Say no to the vaccine passport!

A Pagan Mind

      How does a pagan mind think?  Here are five steps to paganism.

1. Deify Time   Time is a thing.  The Bible proclaims that all things have been made by God.  "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,..."  (Colossians 1:16)  If God created time, then he is not subject to it.  The creator is not subject to His creation.  God exists outside of time because he has always existed.  To deify time, one can give time God-like qualities.  Specifically, one can say that time always existed like God.  Or you can say that time is infinite, without beginning or end - like God.
2. Deify Space   Space is a thing as well.  The Bible proclaims that God made all things.  Evolutionary models imply that time and space have always existed.  Evolution would be impossible, of course, if there were no space to evolve in or time to evolve in the space.  Space is often given God-like characteristics.  God has eternally existed.  Evolutionists imply that space has always existed and will always exist like God.
3.  Deify Nature   Genesis gives us the story of God's creation.  If you believe that God does not exist, then you can't believe that he created this world.  So something had to create our world.  Scientists often ascribe God's creative power to nature.  Evolutionists say that nature is like God in that it has the innate power to create life over millions/billions of years.  Many believe that nature is in a constant struggle to create the most superior, most fit specimens possible.  The second law of thermodynamics tells us that nature devolves or degenerates on it's own.  To make a tree evolve into a wooden table, we have to put creative energy into the process.  The tree does not make itself into a table from its own creative power.  Genesis tells us that God created matter and arranged it into everything in our universe.
4.  Deify Nature with Intellect  The Bible tells us that God has infinite knowledge and wisdom.  He is the ultimate designer.  He is the superior engineer - the finest creator in the universe!  Many try to ascribe a great creative ability to nature.  DNA research has shown that every living cell has a set of detailed plans of specific information.  There is a ton of planning that has gone into the creation of every single earthly creature.  Some scientist claim that nature, through natural selection, has the wisdom and knowledge for creating life.  Again, God-like characteristics are assigned to nature.
5.  Praise Nature   We should praise God for his magnificent creation - this world we get to enjoy.  Often, however, many would rather ascribe praise to nature for this magnificent earth we live in.  Here is the thinking:  Through millions of years nature has evolved this_____.  Or through billions of years nature has naturally selected this_________.  Some scientists think that nature, over billions of years, was able to accomplish the same thing that took God 6 days.  It takes great faith to be a pagan.  You must believe that time and space eternally existed.  You must believe that nature has great creative abilities.  You must believe that nature has the wisdom and knowledge to build DNA blueprints.  You must basically believe that nature is God.
      Our sun is a star.  Stars eventually burn out.  When our sun ceases to produce light and warmth, everything on earth will freeze and die.  If nature is your god, then your god is eventually going to die.

100 Trillion Plans - Creation/Evolution

      

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

      Were you created or did you evolve?  Were you designed by God or are you a product of time and chance?  In 1860, an agnostic named Thomas Huxley debated Samuel Wilberforce at Oxford on the theory of evolution.  Wilberforce stated that a watch implies the existence of a watch maker.  Similarly, design in nature implies the existence of a Designer.  Huxley argued that six eternal monkeys or apes typing on six eternal typewriters with unlimited amounts of paper and ink could, given enough time, produce a Psalm, a Shakespearean sonnet, or even a whole book, purely by chance that is, by random striking of the keys.  Huxley pretended to find the 23^rd Psalm among reams of typed gibberish produced by his six imaginary apes at their typewriters. His point was this:  molecular movement, given enough time and matter, would be able to produce Bishop Wilberforce himself, purely by chance and without the work of any Designer or Creator. (Creation.com)
     DNA was not discovered until 1953.  (Huxley and Wilberforce did not have the advantages of  modern science.)  Each cell in your body has DNA, a set of plans.  If there are 50 to 100 trillion cells in your body then you have trillions of plans in you.  You were not a product of "time and chance".  You were carefully planned with 50-100 trillion sets of plans.  That is so amazing!  

Psalm 139:17 &18 says, "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee."

Evolution

 Photo by Meg Jerrard on Unsplash

      

      By law, public schools are required to teach the Theory of Evolution.  Many try to emphasis the "separation of church and state" idea.  Many want to change our Merry Christmas to "Happy Holidays".  But what if we go beyond all the talk?  Is the Theory of Evolution something we really believe in?  Do we believe it enough to actually practice it in real life?  When we apply it to real life, we run into some serious philosophical problems.
      In sports we refer to evolution when talk about "survival of the fittest".  We think about one person winning and the others losing a sports game.  In the theory, however, the weaker ones do not lose.  The weaker ones die off and only the strong survive.  Our country has a big problem with gangs.  The gang lifestyle is very similar to the survival of the fittest idea.  If guns were not used and the fighting was done without weapons, then the strongest gangs would survive and the weaker would be eliminated.
      We would not want to apply such a theory to our society because it would be completely inhumane.  What if we ended all medicare and social security for the weaker, elderly and sick people of our society and gave that money to our strongest people.  That would be promoting the Theory of Evolution and survival of the fittest but it would be completely disrespectful to those that deserve our help.
      Think about having a daughter.  She is looking forward to dating sometime in the future (possibly age 30).  Do you want her to date the guy that is evolution-minded?  The guy who believes in survival of the fittest, the strongest ones prevail and might makes right?  Would that date just be following his own animal instincts?  Or do you want her to date the guy that is creation-minded?  The one that believes that she was created by the wisest designer in the universe?  The one that believes she was created in the image of God himself?  The one that thinks he may have to answer to God some day for the way he treats her?  Obviously, what you believe can have a big impact on the way you treat others.
     Evolution has a value problem.  If you say someone is a super-evolved monkey, you are lowering their value from a human to an evolved monkey.  Saying someone is evolved from a small amoeba does not give them a sense of self-worth.  Comparisons to animals are usually used to lower ones value or insult a person.  If you say someone is a product of time and chance, you are inferring that they were not worth the time of being planned.  For a Christian, the most valuable being in the universe is God.  The Bible says that man was designed by this most valuable and wise being.  This gives man great value.  The Bible also says that man was created in the image of this most valuable being.  This gives us great value!
      We are often told that science has proved evolution to be true.  If we could prove that evolution is true, we would call it the LAW of evolution.  It is correctly called the theory of evolution.  It is just a theory.  If the theory of evolution is true we should see many new species evolving and coming to life.  Most scientists today are more worried about all the animals that are becoming extinct.
      The Theory of Evolution implies that time is a constant.  This concept is highly suspect.  The time on your cell phone usually differs from the time on your computer.  The time on one sign usually differs from the time on the next sign.  Some scientists believe that time ceases to flow at the speed of light.  So, if you were traveling at a speed that is close to the speed of light and you travel the distance of a light-year, perhaps it would only take you a few seconds.  It would not take a year.  Some scientists believe that time would nearly stop in a black hole which tends toward infinite density.  So we could stay young but we would be crushed by the tremendous gravitational pull.  To assume that time is a constant, as evolution does, may be erroneous.
      Romans 1:20 says, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead: so that they are without excuse:"  Our visible world teaches us about the invisible world.  Our DNA is our blueprint.  We were planned.  We are not here by accident!!  We are not a product of time and chance.  Nature points us to what is beyond this world.  Our sun is a star.  When our sun burns out, life on earth will freeze and die.  However, Christians have a heavenly home that is being prepared by God himself.  This is exciting and gives us great hope!