How fragile the human form?

Question

do you believe man's society should advance and be molded around advancing the human form and faculties?
our that such things are of little importance?
consider now how we are so very frail amidst the machines, stuctures and weapons we live amongst.
have we gone wrong?
should we instead focus our being on the progression in all areas of the form we are born into.(say as the so called "primitive" peoples of old).
the human form is gods holy work and greatest honour
should we not manifest our being to honour this, instead of creating a world which renders it so insignificant.

a great strong warrior,brought down by a weakling with a rifle, who in turn is killed by a stray shell.

is this where we are headed.
thoughts?

thank you j

Answer 1

If it weren't for our intelligence, humans would probably be long extinct. Physically, we're one of the most frail species on the planet. A chimpanzee half our size is twice as strong. Nearly any predator can outrun us. We don't even have any thick hide to protect us from bites or the cold.

Thanks to our toolmaking abilities we've overcome most of the challenges of our environments. In modern times, we continue to find ways to make the human body less frail to disease and injury. Medical advances have allowed us to alleviate or conquer many conditions that would have killed us just a few decades ago. We've more than doubled battlefield survival rates, come up with gene therapies for genetic diseases, made good progress against many cancers, and there's even more stuff in the R&D pipelines that may allow us to regularly live to nearly 100.

One thing that has become increasingly obvious the more biologists learn about the human body is, that if humans are the product of a divine creator, then our creator could not have done better than a C- in bioengineering class, because the human body is simply full of built-in imperfections. It is many of these imperfections that modern and future biotechnology is now seeking to fix. Imperfections like genetic diseases, gross inefficiencies in certain biological functions, molecular frailties that lead to cancer and other debilitating conditions, etc.

There is a growing number of futurists, including some in the biotechnology and medical fields, that can now see the day when we are finally able to leave our fragile, flawed biological forms behind and migrate our minds into much faster, reliable, age-proof, disease-proof, upgradeable and essentially immortal quantum computers. This will not be possible for a few decades at least and possibly not within any of our lifetimes, but there are no theoretical barriers preventing us from eventually being able to do so. I think once that happens the human race will enter a period of hyper-evolution. Personally, I hope to be around to watch how things unfold!

Answer 2

"The Field," Lynne McTaggart, "The Biology of Transcendence," J. C. Pearce, "Psychoenergetic Science," William A. Tiller, Ph.D., http://www.tiller.org are some worthwhile modern presentations on the human body temple.

While not traditional orthodox Christianity, "The Soulless One," Mark Prophet, "Hope for the World: Spiritual Galvanoplasty," O. M. Aivanhov, "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D., "Extraordinary Knowing," Elizabeth Mayer, Ph.D., and "Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D., ought provide some additional perspective.

It is my opinion that AI and transhumanism are to a significant extent going in a deleterious direction, as regards Love, wisdom, and Faith.

cordially,

j.