Christian Worldview Concepts

Desperately Seeking Perfection: Transhuman's Utopian Dreams

Conclusion

Transhumanists appear willing to rest the future on human reason and biotechnology alone, trusting that these will not only secure the blessings of immortality but by genetic enhancement and uploading intelligence, omniscience as well. Transhumanists have every intention of creating man in their own image, an image which remains conspicuously undefined. Will Transhumanists develop an interest in creating slave races? Will ethnic and cultural diversity become obsolete, something that we engineer or will new ethnic identities be created? If the dreams of Transhumanists are realized, there will still be an extended period of time when both post-humans and unenhanced humans will occupy the world. What will become of those humans who resist the "progress" offered by Transhumanism? What moral argument of sufficient public potency will be raised against exterminating the unwashed masses of "old" humanity?

Transhumanists neglect the important task of defining and defending the exclusive assumptions upon which their technological Tower of Babel is to be built, and they do even less in describing or even predicting the social, political, ethical and psychological implications of their vision. Transhumanists might or might not be psychologically pathological, but there is no doubt that they are afflicted with a well-known spiritual pathology. Fallen humans throughout history have exhibited similar traits: the worship of wealth, power, novelty, machinery. They create gods out of means at the expense of ends. They consistently confuse "can" and "should." Their "faith" in science and the arrogance of their unfettered individualism drive them to pursue their hearts desire regardless of the consequences. They want to leap into the dark -- into a darkness all too likely to be a bottomless abyss. The biblical account of the Tower of Babel reminds us that few things are more dangerous than technology and desire without morality; unlimited means ungoverned by ethical boundaries.