Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

One of the clearest proofs that Christianity addresses the fundamental problems of humanity

is the bizarre lengths to which non-Christians go to address those very same problems but without Christ.

For example, tech billionaire Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal,

recently went on Ross Douthit's Interesting Times podcast to discuss AI, Mars, immortality,

and other light topics.

The conversation was fascinating, especially when Douthit asked Teal,

should the human race continue?

Teal paused and then said, oh, and I don't know quite a few times.

Laughing nervously, Douthat then observed, that is a long hesitation.

Well, finally, Tiel explained that he did believe humanity should survive, but that there are

problems in need of solving. Chief among those, he said,

death. And transhumanists have long hoped to conquer that via a, and I quote here,

radical transformation of the human body into an immortal body. The problem, he said, with efforts

like transgenderism, isn't that they change bodies too radically, but that they're not

radical enough. Quote, we want more transformation than that. We want you to be able to change your

heart and change your mind and change your whole body, end quote. Till then pointed to Christianity

and its doctrines of redemption and resurrection as precedent

for the transhumanist idea of total self-transformation and conquest of death.

Maybe, he hinted, the two philosophies aren't all that different.

Doubthett, a Roman Catholic pushed back, pointing out that according to Christianity,

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