Illinois Conservative Laments Advance of Transhumanism - Illinois Leader - Dec 1, 2004
In an editorial in the Illinois Leader, a conservative magazine, talk show host and pastor Scott Thomas celebrated the narrow defeat of a California-style funding proposal for stem cell research as a defeat of transhumanism.
make no mistake, there are dire ramifications to what this bill would have allowed.
The goal of immortality is no longer the domain of Vincent Price mad scientist characters in movies. Transhumanism--the belief that human beings, with the proper technology, have the ability to transcend age, disease, this planet and, ultimately, death--is a real-life growing worldview.
The leading transhumanist website lists, among its core values, this statement: “Transhumanism advocates the well-being of all sentience (whether in artificial intellects, humans, posthumans, or non-human animals) and encompasses many principles of modern humanism.”
Translated to English, this is the belief that human beings are simply one of the animals of the universe and, apparently, simply part of an intellectual continuum that includes artificial intelligence.
In a worldview, universe view (if you will), where human beings hold the same relative value as a microprocessors or sheep, growing humans inside other humans for the purpose of killing humans and experimenting on humans, for the sole purpose of trying to find out if some humans might live better or live longer, seems perfectly normal.
Passing legislation like House Bill 3589 would have further opened the doors to the real-life Dr. Arcanes (remember Swamp Thing?) of the transhuman and posthuman movements. Thank God for the one vote that provided the margin to defeat this Bill.
