It's Wednesday, August 13, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Don't die. That's the admonition that's taken as a motto by some in the transhumanist movement who argue that it is possible

that human beings can basically live forever. And thus you have Brian Johnson, for example,

who is considered to be one of the prophets of the transhumanist movement, who just has adopted

as a motto. He wants to sell to others. Don't die. The entire issue of transhumanism is something that has arisen fairly recently in terms of worldview analysis, in terms of a contemporary conversation.

And in terms of a national conversation, it's newer than in some isolated places such as Silicon Valley.

It's really interesting. There's a very revealing aspect of this

in which a lot of this has been coming from Silicon Valley

and people who have been so committed to the digital world

that they have envisioned a world in which we simply live forever.

And right now there are some who are looking at artificial intelligence

and are saying that that's the way we're going to live forever. We'll basically be downloaded

into a form of continued identity through artificial intelligence. There are others who are

saying, look, it is also possible that we're going to find biological breakthroughs, medical breakthroughs, dietary breakthroughs, unimaginable breakthroughs in

medicine so that we can just continue to press the limits of human longevity. But the worldview issues

here are just thick. And the fact is that this is increasingly a part of our national

conversation. It's breaking out in the Time magazine.

It's in Wired magazine, of course, but that's where you find a lot of these things.

The fact that it has jumped to the front pages of our papers tells us something else.

Ross Delfit in a very interesting conversation.

Ross Douthan of the New York Times with Peter Thiel.

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