Ouch, I never realized those guys were this deluded.
It always irks me when religious people decide to base their views on real
life facts based on spiritual teachings.

Oh well, in their defense I can say that there is a Mormon Transhumanist
Association, so at least some of them are on the right path?

Count me out.
>
Aww, why not? Personally, I believe that having a secular religion is a good
idea.

But I guess what can we expect from
the "Son of Man"? ;-)
Haha, my thoughts exactly ;)

On 4/30/07, Michael C Price <michael.price917@... > wrote:
>
> > From: "Son of Man" <ameluti@... <ameluti%40gmail.com>>
> > What about the Mormons, then? Those guys are practically
> > transhumanist already.
>
> Yuck! Mormonism is anti-scientific, holding many beliefs
> that are simply counter-factual. For instance they believe
> that the American Indians are of recent exclusive
> Middle-Eastian /Semetic origin, which is contrary to all
> the genetic evidence of a more ancient Mongolian origin.
> They believe that various ancient Egyptian papyri have
> wildly different interpretations than that assigned by
> modern Egyptologists. Why? Well their meaning was
> "revealed to" (i.e. invented by) J Smith before the Rosseta
> decipherment. Ooops. I could go on, but I hope you
> get the picture.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham
>
> One of my friends is a Mormon and it is quite enlightening
> to see the ability of an intellighent mind to exist in
> denial of scientific facts.
>
> > Also, I am very intrigued by the thought of viewing
> > transhumanism as a religion.
>
> Count me out. But I guess what can we expect from
> the "Son of Man"? ;-)
>
> - Michael C Price
>
>
>



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