Transhuman Movement Reviewed

12 October 2017 Blog, Transhumanism An ordered list of links for each blog series is on the Archive page. (0)

First in a Series, on Pandemonium’s Engine

Would you be interested to learn more about transhumanism and the singularity? Earlier this week I added a News Odyssey story about a transhumanist who has begun a religious nonprofit, Way of the Future, for the blending of worship with Artificial Intelligence. How would you share your faith with this inventor?

Over the next few months I will republish a series on Pandemonium’s Engine (PE) that was originally posted during the winter of 2012 on the previous version of SisterSite, with updates.

The book’s subtitle, How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, and the Coming of the Übermensch Herald Satan's Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God, reveals an aggressive agenda to bring Christians up to speed on this challenge to the Faith.

Published by Defender Publishing, Crane, Mo., it offers a collection of essays and articles on the Human Enhancement Revolution (HER), GRIN (genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology) and current scientific efforts to alter human DNA sequencing and create new forms of life. This seems like a timely series in view of news stories like some that are posted on SistersSite’s News Odyssey.

The transhumanist movement does not regard the human being as a special creation of God, and has no problem in merging species through biotechnologies, thereby disregarding God’s kinds which evolutionists also deny.

Tom Horn, D.D., the author of Chapter One of Pandemonium’s Engine and the book's editor, can be googled or binged and you will find lots of information. Dr. Horn is currently CEO of SkyWatchTV and operates Whispering Ponies Ranch today.

Please be aware that some of the topics associated with transhumanism are spectacular and invite a variety of speakers and theological views, not all that are reputable.

A Godhead Based on Artificial Intelligence

09 October 2017 News Odyssey An ordered list of links for each blog series is on the Archive page. (0)
BioEdge.com | Xavier Symons | 7 Oct 2017

dead rose in grunge settingTired of organised religion? Maybe you should join a Silicon Valley religious start-up.

Former Uber exec Anthony Levandowski, for example, has registered a non-for-profit religious organisation in California, going by the name of Way of the Future. According to Wired, Way of the Future aims to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society”.

Levandowski’s De ex Machina religion is just one of several quasi-religious organisations now operational in the Californian tech belt.

“The church does a terrible job of reaching out to Silicon Valley types,” says Christopher Benek, a pastor in Florida and founding chair of the Christian Transhumanist Association. Benek argues that AI can participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes,” he said, by ensuring it is imbued with Christian values. “Even if people don’t buy organized religion, they can buy into ‘do unto others’.”

Self-proclaimed transhumanist visionary Zoltan Istvan argues that religion and science converge conceptually in the singularity.

“God, if it exists as the most powerful of all singularities, has certainly already become pure organized intelligence,” he said, referring to an intelligence that “spans the universe through subatomic manipulation of physics”. BioEdge: An AI alternative to organised religion

WIRED.com | Mark Harris | 09/27/2017

Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change.

When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines. In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer at the heart of the trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.” Read more

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