What kinds of things constitute biotechnological enhancements?

What's the difference between correcting disease and enhancing otherwise normal traits?

How does the concept of our resurrection body help us understand

where we draw lines and limits on these technologies? We'll tackle these questions

and a few more with our guest, Dr. John McClain, author and theologian, vice principal of Christ College in Sydney, Australia.

I'm your host Scott Ray and this is Think Biblically, the podcast from Talbot School

Theology at Biola University. Welcome, John, so happy to have you with us, one of my dear

friends from Down Under, I'm glad to have you on this with us. Thanks Scott,

great to be here. So tell me first of all for our listeners who might not be aware of this this whole field in general.

What do you mean by the term human enhancement and what are some examples of the kinds of things that you're referring to.

Yeah, sure. So, a human enhancement has got to do with how we might be able to or we are already starting

to change the way the human body functions in a way that makes it more than a kind of normal function.

So there's all been all sorts of developments in biotechnology in the last

30 or 40 years and there's a heap more to come, no doubt, some of which we can't even begin to

imagine.

And some of those open up the possibility of changing the way the body itself function.

So some simple examples of some of the pharmaceutical interventions.

Already people perhaps a little bit in the black market would be taking something like

Rittland which is developed to treat attention deficit disorder those

kind of things but if someone who is already, say, a successful student takes

Rittland, it seems to be able to increase their concentration beyond what they'd normally be able to.

So that would be a very simple example.

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