(May 21, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(May 21, 2015 at 5:59 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I sort of feel like until science can say we have a cure for human aging and death, religion will continue to exist. I'm in a minority among my fellow biologists in that I believe aging should be approached as a disease to be treated (not an inevitable outcome that we accept as a foregone conclusion).
Unless someone comes up with a cure, it is inevitable.
Well yeah, but what if science treated I don't know death from small pox or polio infection as an unstoppable killer, treating as a foregone conclusion the idea that it can't be treated? So a shift in perspective is important in this context ... at least in my view.
