X-Message-Number: 20665 From: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:13:11 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #20658 Pascal and cryonics --part1_153.193b0023.2b34fe07_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > From: Wesley Eddy <> >I'm not certain what you mean by this ... since you're assuming religious >people are by definition anti-cryonics (which is a false premise by the way), >why would they be interested in trying to pay for it? A very small minority may want a second "eternity" possibility. Other, may want to use cryonics to perpetuate their religious based power. If cryonics becomes a credible possibility for the layman, churche's cockroaches will find a way with their faith. If I have a say in that subject, it is: NO. I accept some faith, Santa for example :-) >Well, that's your choice then. I'm still failing to see why you're under >the impression that it's not possible to both harbor religious beliefs and >support technologies like cryonics, Ask Giordano Bruneau, Galileo,...One greath man understood that well: Isaac Newton used this power to hunt the catholics, he used the reform as a lever to do this. Good job Sir ! >This topic reminds me a lot of the controversy regarding evolution. For >anyone interested in clashes between the Christian religion and scientific >progress, I'd recommend the book "Can a Darwinian be a Christian" by Michael >Ruse. It does a decent job of demonstrating that there's really no conflict >here and the only people who have problems reconciling the two are taking a >very narrow view of both and not bothering to investigate matters deeply >enough before making adamant decisions Good words... But the reality is that the church give us "Intelligent desing" as a "science". What you say is the classical religious discourse: no problem, not so bad, and so on until they can eat you from inside. Technological long life is a very good weapon against all religious thinking it would be foolish not to use it. The most implacable will survive. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_153.193b0023.2b34fe07_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20665