biological immortality? Will it just cure and treat future illnesses?
2006-09-21 10:16:01 · 12 answers · asked by Stephanie D 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If we can program nanobots to recreate the telomeres that tick off the days of our genetic lives, then yes. I think it is a long way off.
2006-09-21 10:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If by that you mean no death by natural causes, I rather think so. It seems a solvable problem to me. I don't think it will be from just one thing, but rather a combination. Turn off the aging process, be able to cure all diseases. It seams doable at some point. Once you get it to an engineering problem you can figure on getting there eventually.
I also don't think I will see it. There is a lot in that. I think we have a better chance in my lifetime of being able to upload our consciousness to a computer and that would allow you to live forever too. Maybe that is because this is what I do for a living, but again it seem like just an engineering problem and it seems smaller than the sum total of the others.
I don't speak for other Atheists.
2006-09-21 10:29:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we don't wipe ourselves off the face of the earth, I think we may be able to mostly do away with illness.
We are beginning to get a glimpse of the genetic & chemical parameters of the aging process. Are there show-stoppers in those processes that make them necessarily irreversible? We don't know yet. Should we strive for biological immortality? On that question we even know less.
2006-09-21 10:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, I don't think it will be immortality, but I do believe they will devise a way to preserve a few minds, or at least prolong life for a great deal. Immortality is something totally different, though. That means you CANNOT die because you are beyond living- you're not mortal. This is not possible, nor even probable.
I believe we shouldn't be trying to extend our life span. I think it should be stablized to a certain age. Who wants to live forever- that would be boring.
2006-09-21 10:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am curious as to why you would direct this question specifically toward atheists.
Anyway... I would like to think so. However, recent investigations suggest that this might be a lot more difficult than previously thought. It seems that 'death' is programmed not only in the 'telemeres', but is inextricably woven throughout our genetic code. If this turns out to be possible at all, we may be hundreds of years away from achieving it.
2006-09-21 10:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology will help better our lives...but in ways we havent even dreamed of yet.
Every few years we get this kind of question.
Since technology & research enabled due to technology has actually cured or helped tread desease & illness, I would say definatley for sure.
2006-09-21 10:19:34 · answer #6 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and yes, I believe one day we will stop the biological aging process (probably through genetic manipulation). But not all atheist believe this.
2006-09-21 10:23:19 · answer #7 · answered by adphllps 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Immortality? no, just extensions of mortality. I wouldn't mind living to be 200 or 300 as long as I had health and mind, and a working penis....
2006-09-21 10:20:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Humans will destroy the planet's ability to support life long before technology advances that far.
Humans have more intelligence than wisdom and will prove it by rendering the planet uninhabitable by life as we know it.
2006-09-21 10:20:04 · answer #9 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
We wont achieve immortality. The only way to do that is reconstruct the earth as it was before the Flood.
2006-09-21 10:19:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋