{"id":189477,"date":"2015-03-08T19:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T23:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/are-transhumanists-trying-to-play-god.php"},"modified":"2015-03-08T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T23:51:43","slug":"are-transhumanists-trying-to-play-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-engineering\/are-transhumanists-trying-to-play-god.php","title":{"rendered":"Are &#39;Transhumanists&#39; Trying to Play God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    February 12, 2015|8:10 am  <\/p>\n<p>    In 2000, Craig Venter, along with Francis Collins, joined    then-president Clinton in announcing the mapping of the human    genome.  <\/p>\n<p>    Since then, Venter has been a leader in the field of synthetic    biology, a multi-disciplinary field related to genetic    engineering.  <\/p>\n<p>    And what he recently told the Wall Street Journal sent chills    down my spine. Venter said, \"We're going to have to learn to    adapt to the concept that we are a software-driven species and    understand how it affects our lives. Change the software, you    can change the species, who we are.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    The Journal's selected headline of the article described how we    can now \"control our evolution,\" which because evolution is    supposed to be an unguided process, must be a misnomer. What    Venter was actually describing would be better characterized as    playing Creator to everyone else's Adam.  <\/p>\n<p>    Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/when-adam-plays-god-why-transhumanism-wont-end-well-133846\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/when-adam-plays-god-why-transhumanism-wont-end-well-133846\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        Hackers Declare Cyberwar on ISIS      <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        Android 5.0 Lollipop Update for Samsung Galaxy S4 Release        Date: Download Now Available      <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/are-transhumanists-trying-to-play-god-133950\" title=\"Are &#39;Transhumanists&#39; Trying to Play God?\">Are &#39;Transhumanists&#39; Trying to Play God?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> February 12, 2015|8:10 am In 2000, Craig Venter, along with Francis Collins, joined then-president Clinton in announcing the mapping of the human genome. Since then, Venter has been a leader in the field of synthetic biology, a multi-disciplinary field related to genetic engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-engineering\/are-transhumanists-trying-to-play-god.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetic-engineering"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}