Transhuman

For several years now, I've been hunting the origins of transhumanism. One of the significant mysteries in this story is the first time the word "transhumanism" shows up in English. Until recently,...

The Kingdom of God has a biotechnological research agenda. We must cultivate all life, starting from the bottom up. We must learn how life works, how evolution unfolds, how ecosystems function—and w...

In one billion years, life on Earth will be gone. Five billion years from now, the Sun will expand to encompass the Earth. But long before that happens, the rising temperatures of the Sun will boil t...

I’ve just returned from seeing [Black Panther](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDjIWPwcPU), and not only is it a great superhero movie, it is one of the most tech-positive movies I’ve seen in a long ...

*[Published at the Huffington Post](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59e40d37e4b09e31db975a6c)* Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a German church, kicking off ...

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul lays out an argument that many believe is at the heart of the Christian faith—an argument for the ultimate resurrection of all people, and the eradication of death itself. P...

If you could flip a switch and experience more pleasure than you have ever felt in your entire life—would you do it? What if that switch also made you feel incredibly happy and joyful? What if it mad...

In the last few years, a number of different organizations have launched projects to *end aging* and radically extend human longevity. Google’s [Calico Labs](https://www.calicolabs.com/) is perhaps th...

One of the reasons that science has been widely regarded as an atheistic enterprise over the years, is that for quite a while now, it has preached a future of relentless annihilation. Ever since the ...

The other day I posted a hypothesis I was working on, and stirred up some wide-ranging discussion on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/716391871321358336). After a while, this kind of...

“Never again will there be… an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child” (Isaiah 65:20, NIV) ...

Recently my friend Lincoln Cannon released the third version of his groundbreaking [New God Argument](http://new-god-argument.com/). This argument is a philosophical justification for trust in God, la...

In [Acts 17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17:16-34), the apostle Paul does something remarkable. He walks onstage at Mars Hill in Athens, the center of the philosophical tradition...

Many of you know that I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to support and grow the [Christian Transhumanist Association](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/), an organization devoted to creat...

I’ve [written before](http://micahredding.com/blog/2013/06/07/iron-man-and-modern-identity-crisis) about my love for Iron Man 3. In it, Tony Stark faces the hard question of personal identity. Who is ...

A few days ago, I published an essay attempting to explain and define *[transhumanism](http://micahredding.com/blog/2015/02/27/what-transhumanism-and-why-should-christians-care)*. At root, I said, tra...

In the past year, a strange new idea called “transhumanism” has started to show up in documentaries, tv series, and blockbuster movies. It’s often coupled with stories of amazing new medical developme...

Lately, a lot of people have been talking about embodiment. From theologians and philosophers, to environmentalists and activists, there is a lot of concern with how we think of ourselves, and our rel...

I think that there are three strains of religious and spiritual transhumanism. The first seeks to understand and commit more deeply to its own religious heritage, and in doing so, discovers a call to...

These are my thoughts in response to [this question](https://twitter.com/emmetcole/status/370608859716407296): > Would a dominant pantheistic or pagan cultural tradition have prepared the West better...

Transhumanism is the ethical use of technology to extend human ability, and to improve the human condition. Transhumanism holds that we should not be limited by the way things are, or by the way they...

On May 21, 2011, I was sitting in a steel-roofed building as a powerful storm pounded down outside. This is the day that Harold Camping had said the world would end. After decades of bible study, he...

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The simulation argument conversation. Finite or Infinite? ...

Since our second official episode just went up, I thought it would be good to point out that I'm doing a podcast. This podcast is about the future, the Singularity, and what it's like to experience *l...

Wesley J. Smith has written a short piece entitled *[Christian Transhumanism is an Oxymoron](http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2012/04/21/christian-transhumanist-is-an-oxymoron/)*. Fo...

The universe appears to have been fine-tuned for life. It's astonishing, really. The physical constants (like the strength of gravity or the number of spatial dimensions) seem to have really improba...

Late last year, I [explained](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/09/21/why-i-joined-mormon-trashumanist-association) why I (a non-Mormon) had joined the Mormon Transhumanist Association. I felt like re...

*As a disclaimer, this is a thought experiment, not an attempt at a scientific argument.* --- Okay, so continuing my thoughts on the [Simulation Argument](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/11/23/int...

The other day I published my [Introduction to the Simulation Argument](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/11/23/introduction-simulation-argument), to some interesting reactions. Although it's a very si...

In 2003, Nick Bostrom published his [Simulation Argument](http://www.simulation-argument.com/), and shook the landscape of philosophy. The basic idea is easy to describe. For the past few decades, w...

Recently, I've become convinced that *the singularity is upon us*. I don't mean this in the sense of an impending mass human upload, or a cyborg takeover, or some other apocalyptic scenario; I mean th...

I'm aware that this may turn off some people. That's okay. Jump to the bottom if this is you. // For a few hundred years now, the general scientific consensus has been that immortality is at best un...

Going forward, the world will be increasingly centered around information. And so it is necessary to understand a few things about information. 1) Information has no location. At a fundamental level,...

In my previous posts (1, 2, 3), I've tried to be careful not to offer any speculation on the actual nature of resurrection or immortality. Instead, I've tried to follow the scriptures, and simply hold...

There are many philosophies of the future, many perspectives on how society progresses, and many thoughts on what gives us hope. It seems by now to have been well-established that humans need hope in...

I'm a big believer in the multiverse. I can't quite explain why, but from the first time I heard the concept, I knew it was true. It just made deep, intuitive sense. Sometimes I have trouble understa...

When I was about 13, I read a book called "The Physics of Immortality". Now, 12 years later, the author (Frank Tipler), has released a sequel called "The Physics of Christianity". I recently bought it...

Kevin posed an interesting question about post-mortem fate and eternal life. Why are humans fascinated with this subject?Let me answer by going as nerdy as I can, and approaching this question from t...