Transhumanism: Taking the Place of Our Creator

Mary Meets Dolly

Saturday, November 17. 2012

Transhumanism: Taking the Place of Our Creator

There is a dangerous philosophy emerging in our fast-paced, technology-driven world of which most people are totally unaware. And yet, when Francis Fukuyama, economist at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, was asked what idea posed the "greatest threat to the welfare of humanity," his answer was this philosophy.

And yet I am positive most Catholics have never heard of it. Catholics certainly do not realize that they are being fed a steady diet of images in popular media that play right to the more seductive aspects of this ideology.

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Posted by Rebecca Taylor in Transhumanism at 08:58 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Novelist Brian Gail has produced an intriguing tour of what this might look like in his trilogy: Fatherless, Motherless and Childless. The parallels between what we see happening in our world and what Gail has described are amazing -- and by that I mean chilling.

#1 Jay Dunlap on 2012-11-19 09:24 (Reply)

I reviewed the trilogy on this blog. I discuss the transhumanist elements here:

http://www.marymeetsdolly.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1111-More-great-Catholic-fiction-in-Childless.html

Dean Koontz is also exposes the transhumanist philosophy in his Frankenstein series and in 77 Shadow Street.

#1.1 Rebecca Taylor on 2012-11-19 09:46 (Reply)

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