Biotechnology as religion
Posted in Technology, Worldview on September 20, 2006 | No Comments »
“Many biotech enthusiasts have no interest in traditional religions,” comments Leigh Turner, a biomedical ethicist at McGill University. “Religion, for them, offers no framework for salvation. Instead, biotech provides a surrogate religious narrative. Biotech offers the prospect of a this-worldly form of life extension. In some respects, what could be more different than belief [...]
