“If we make the right breakthroughs in the next 25 years, then there is a 50:50 chance that people alive today could live to be 1000 years old,” says Dr Audrey de Grey, editor-in-chief of the journal Rejuvenation Research and co-founder of the SENS Foundation. SENS stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence that works on diverse disciplines such as tissues engineering, artificial intelligence, law, demographics and politics.
The statement was made by Dr de Grey during the 2009 SENS Conference participated in by 200 scientists who have been described as “the immortalists”. Among other things, they look at body parts like those of machines that can be replaced once these wear out thereby prolonging life, if not attaining immortality. The claim has statistics to support it with more than 300,000 people receiving tissue-engineered parts since 12 years ago when the technique was developed in a laboratory that made a human ear grow on the back of a mouse.
There is no argument that science has allowed people to live longer through advance techniques in medicine, better understanding of diseases, knowledge in prevention and modern approaches on wellness. But going into the realm of immortality is but a continuation of the search for the legendary fountain of youth. Richard Faragher, chairman of the British Society for Research on Ageing, is urging caution: “There are many ways that public health can be improved through simple measures such as managing hip fractures more effectively. We should be focusing on these things rather than dreaming about immortality.”
The health and wellness industry has grown steadily though the years with health gurus and miracles diets cashing in on promises of longevity and physical youthfulness. Nothing wrong really in seeking longer physical life, but then that is not how God will measure our worthiness in His kingdom. King Solomon wrote that God has planted eternity in the human heart. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) The concern of God is what is in our heart, what is in our soul. Jesus Christ shared: “I have come that they may have life, and they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) And how can we live life abundantly? The answer: “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” (Deuteronomy 6:5)
Christ could have lived amongst us in person on earth forever, if He so willed. But He lived for only 33 years to assure us that there is life beyond life, there is life after death. “Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying’.” (John 11:25) God the Father sent Jesus to lead us to a blissful life for all eternity, immortality in the truest sense. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
by Mel Libre
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