Simon Young: Transhumanism – a new religion? September 30, 2006

Transhumanism – a new religion?

Meme wars: the battle of the transhumanists. Beyond the religious right and liberal left. Transhumanism as a new metameme for the modern world.

Simon Young, author of Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto http://www.designerevolution.net/ (New York: Prometheus Books, 2006), and Founder of the World Transhumanist Society, http://www.worldtranshumanistsociety.com/ argues that Transhumanists should reject their outdated political baggage – Transhumanism challenges all existing worldviews, political or religious, and is destined to become the dominant new belief system of the Modern World in the 21st century. But does that make it a new religion? Young’s answer may surprise you. Find out why…

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