X-Message-Number: 19091
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Science's cultural values
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:44:23 -0700

Rudi quotes from the Scientific American Webpage as saying:

>IMMORTALITY
Eliminating all the aging-related11 causes of death presently written on
death certificates would still not make humans immortal.12 Accidents,
homicides, suicide and the biological processes of aging would continue to
take their toll. The prospect of humans living forever is as unlikely today
as it has always been, and discussions of such an impossible scenario have 
no
place in a scientific discourse.

A few years ago I noticed that scientists were publishing peer-reviewed 
articles about making Mars habitable, building time machines and even 
creating new universes (talk about "playing god"!).  In light of these 
apparently respectable speculations, what basis does SciAm's thought police 
have for dismissing immortality as an "impossible scenario"?

Mark Plus


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