Human, Still

What does it mean to remain human when technology increasingly gives us the power to redesign ourselves? Advances in artificial intelligence, genetics, neurotechnology, reproductive medicine, and life-extension research are raising questions that once belonged mostly to science fiction. When does healing become enhancement? Should healthy people improve memory, intelligence, strength, or emotional control? What happens when remaining unenhanced carries a social or economic cost?Human, Still begins with a conviction Christians need before answering those questions: technology can tell us what is possible, but it cannot tell us what kind of human beings we ought to become. Drawing on Scripture, theology, bioethics, and contemporary transhumanist thought, Bart L. Denny offers a practical Christian framework for thinking about human enhancement without fear or naïve enthusiasm.Along the way, he explores moral bioenhancement, suffering, radical life extension, mind uploading, genetic intervention, and the growing temptation to treat ordinary humanity as something deficient or ready to be surpassed.This is not a catalog of approved and forbidden technologies. It is a guide for faithful discernment-equipping pastors, parents, caregivers, and thoughtful Christians to ask a deeper question as the future arrives: What kind of humanity are we being asked to become, and does that future resemble the humanity revealed in Jesus Christ?