Digital immortality or cybernetic immortality via whole brain emulation is what transhumanists offer us. We can then live a conscious rational life in the computer cloud in disembodied form. Does this sound more likely than the New Testament promise of bodily resurrection? Digital immortality vs bodily resurrection?
A poll of 2,569 people by Theos, a think-tank specialising in religious issues, found that financial pressures and dwindling faith had led more people to dispense with funeral rites altogether .
Christian leaders in the field of science, technology and theology have added their names to an open letter calling for faith and belief communities to part of the national and international discussion around artificial intelligence.