Article No. 2

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist

Article taken from SpiritDaily.com
[adapted from Michael H. Brown's Tower of Light]

“The science that toils with the womb and genes,” “the science that seeks to create life,” “the science which has denied God.”

Every word that seemed overwrought in the "1990 prophecy," and an addendum [see prophecy] that followed (more than a 
decade later), now seems understated.

For indeed, scientists are seeking to create “a counterfeit Heaven,” they are meddling with the “texture” of existence, as we have
 been emphasizing in a series of articles; and as the two packed prophecies projected, the world is now “seriously out of 
conformance” with God's design (and plan) -- putting itself in grave danger.

In the Garden had been the angel with the flaming sword, as too at Fatima, and now they were trying to crash the very gates 
of that garden – of Eden, of Genesis.

That angel is not going to remain still!

No, the second prophecy (like the first, granted anonymously, in  a dream, as a locution), had warned that “the angels have their instructions from east to west, and now a timetable has been set in motion.”

That’s what it said. There may be precious little time left. What is progressing is too extreme. They are trying to create life 
forms that do not have the spark of God or at least not the full spark and the issue even has grown as to whether a full human 
clone would have a soul.

In His mercy, God might send the breath of His life into such a creation, if only to keep the integrity at the level of spirit -- 
but it was all subject to debate......

The artificial creation of life, to the contrary, was the ultimate in love of self and that was the reverse. It was anti-love and 
anti-Jesus and so set the stage precisely for what the 1990 missive warned: an anti-Christ. Such a spirit was in play but we 
were still at the question of that phrase which had mentioned “the support structures of what man calls nature.” It might 
seem that meddling with molecules of DNA – with genes – had taken us to the extreme, but they were going farther. They
were not just meddling with molecules, but now with single atoms, with the atoms that composed molecules – through a
 process called “nanotechnology.”

Almost incomprehensively, scientists had found ways to use both mechanical devices and DNA to create tiny devices that 
they could shoot into reality and that were only a molecule or smaller in size, and were using other techniques that could go 
smaller than that. At this level, things were measured in “nanometers.”

A sheet of paper is a whopping 100,000 nanometers thick -- to give us an idea.

Through new inventions, they were navigating to levels that were thousands of times smaller than the diameter of human 
hair and creating objects with unknown consequences at that level of size, one day be unleashed into the body or environment.

In so doing, they were right to where the prophecy said: the support structures.

Atoms are the building blocks of molecules and scientists could now manipulate atoms in a way that went beyond anything 
previous. “Nanotechnology is any technology which exploits phenomena and structures that can only occur at the nanometer 
scale, which is the scale of several atoms and small molecules,” noted an encyclopedia.

“Support structures.” This was where science now was – the science that meddled with life. It was getting to the foundation
 of physical reality or at least to very tiny levels, to the smallest building blocks that we knew about, and of course, there were
“benefits.”

“Nanotechnology covers a wide range of industries, and therefore the potential benefits are also widespread,” said the
reference book. “Telecommunications and information technology could benefit in terms of faster computers and advanced
 data storage. Health care could see improvements in skin care, advanced pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, 
biocompatible materials, nerve and tissue repair, and cancer treatment.”

At such a small level, explained researchers, they could shoot minute particles tipped with chemotherapy to kill the cells 
of a tumor, without damaging what was around it. This was extremely tempting. Maybe some of it was fine.

Maybe it was inspired. I didn’t know what to think. There were those of a mystical bent – those who had near-death episodes – 
who said that technology was God’s gift. But it depended on the way it was used and designed and on the attitude of those
who used it.

The current attitude is frightening. At the same time that scientists talked up all the benefits, they bragged that we would 
exceed the limits God had set. There was now a mathematical approach that would enable men to produce desired configurations 
of nanoparticles and even manipulate the way particles interacted with each other. Note the word configure as in configuration, 
which once more went to the prophecy. “This may not mean much to the man on the street,” noted an article in the Princeton 
University newspaper, “but to the average scientist it is a fairly astounding proposition.” Said a biochemist there, “In a sense,
 this would allow you to play God, because the method creates on the computer new types of particles whose interactions are
tuned precisely so as to yield a desired structure.”

So here we were to the essence of it: the support structures of reality, physical reality, were being targeted. It was alchemy 
with a vengeance. Never mind gold. The holy grail of nanotechnology was creating the lattice of a diamond.

Marching this a step further, they were on the verge of redesigning microorganisms.

“Alchemists tried to turn lead into gold," wrote a team of researchers. “It never worked. But now science seems to have 
developed the tools that will enable the realization of the alchemists’ dream. We will be able to accomplish transmutation. 
We will actually turn elements and materials into something entirely different. By changing a material’s atomic structure, 
which nanotech makes possible, that material can be transformed into something else, with new properties, some of which
 have never been seen in nature. Some physicists have even created a new life form – globs of gaseous plasma that, like
 any other life form, can grow, replicate, and communicate. Others have applied electrical signals to quantum dots to 
create programmable matter such as well-stone iron, which can be morphed into substances such as zinc.”

There is the fact that the behavior of materials at such a level is not always predictable. Even subtle changes in the size 
of a particle could precipitate wildly different alterations in the basic properties of those materials – including their toxicity. 
This is what may have been meant in 2004 when it said that “a very dramatic effect” already was in progress and that
 the Creation of God would soon be “damaged” beyond recovery.

It had used the term “total realignment” in referring to what man was doing to nature and “the way that elements and 
life forms interact.”

Nanotechnology not only reconfigured things, but also organisms. That was the direction in which we were quickly headed.

That would likewise disrupt “what God intended.” And it was perhaps adding to what the 2004 message said was a
“fundamental alarm” in Heaven.

Already, nano materials had found there way into more than eighty consumer products with lax regulation but it was 
more than that, much more:

The convergence of nanotechnology with biotechnology and computers held the promise – if one could call it a promise – 
of immortality. It was all headed in the direction of trying to defeat death – and here you got to that line yet again about
 "what God intended."

As the World Transhumanist Association opined, “the human species in its current form does not represent the end of 
development but rather a comparatively early phase.” Eventually, they said, there would be “post-humans” – 
an amalgamation, one writer pointed out, of nanotechnoolgy and nanopharmaceticals “so changed by our interface 
with microchips and nanorobots, so much smarter, happier, and healthier, that humans hardly would be recognizable
 to 21^st-century eyes.”

They were aiming to create a superhuman -- the "artificialize" man just as they can artificialized everything else.

They are set, in short -- our scientists -- on redefining the species.

Reported one writer from a transhumanist meeting several years ago, "Opening the conference was the rather creepy 
Steve Mann, who has been trying to turn himself into a cyborg for years. Mann apparently insists on seeing the world 
through a set of goggles that laser-write video onto his retinas. Using a video hookup, he could share with the audience
exactly what he was seeing; his view was available on a giant screen onstage."

God's Plan: We were supposed to be tried, and then enter the hereafter. Here on earth, we were supposed to carry a 
cross, for a finite time period.

But scientists had decided He didn't exist and figured they could abolish that old-fashioned premise of eternity. Instead, 
earth would be made into Heaven -- it would be transformed into Man's Design (read: Satan's).

Rearrange the body so that mitochondrial genes, for example, are moved into the nucleus and less prone to breakdown 
(what we now call aging).

"Christians certainly do not embrace death as a good in itself, but we understand that death is a part of what it means
 to be human, and that, indeed, the effort to forever forestall death is itself an act of defiance that will be both unworkable 
and morally suspect," noted a theologian.

There was talk of integrating computers, cloned human parts, altered superior genes, animal aspects, and mechanical 
bones and muscles into the human form. Superman (see Nietzsche; see Darwin; see Terminator). Immortality!

The problem:

When we changed humans, there would be an extremely overriding crisis if for no other reason than that a significantly 
changed human would no longer be in the image of God. Instead, scientists were envisioning images of brains connected 
to a computer and at the same time a "bath" of cloned neural stem cells that stimulated brain  cells to grow connections 
to electronic equipment – such that a mechanical device may one day even replace the soft, malleable tissue of what was currently in the human skull.

"There is no intrinsic value in being human, just as there is no intrinsic value in being a rock, a frog, or a posthuman,” said a transhumanist to make sure we got the point -- while another chillingly added, "All these technologies are ways in which we become more like our Creator."

[resources: Tower of Light]

[see also: Transhumanism, Science creates bizarre 'prophetic' animals, and Another food threat?]