Early modernity's promise of curing disease and achieving radical life extension or immortality was a competitive response to Christianity: because Christianity promised physical Resurrection, science had to promise the same thing to succeed, making the transhumanist project downstream of Christian eschatology.
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Peter ThielEvidence Quote
“If Christianity promised you a physical Resurrection science was not going to succeed unless it promised you the exact same thing.”
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A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat— Interesting Times with Ross DouthatCreated: 6/18/2026, 2:32:27 PM
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