“So long as the improvement alleviates or prevents suffering, it is inherently good and … they tend to endorse it.”

In spite of intense disagreements about the utility and morality of trying to “improve” humanity, many thinkers on both sides of the debate share the belief that if just some of the dreams of today’s transhumanists are realized, human society will change and change significantly.These changes, if they occur, will upend some social norms and possibly religious norms as well.And they will force churches and many other institutions (both religious and secular) to adjust to a new reality.For the first time in human history, the biggest material changes in our society may not be occurring outside of ourselves, in the fields, factories and universities that have shaped human civilization, but inside our bodies – in our brains and muscles and arteries, and even in our DNA.