“Can Google solve death?” ran a headline in the current issue of
Time. It added that “the search giant is launching a venture to extend the
human life span. That would be crazy-if it weren't Google”. With a world view
that believes “everything is solvable if you reduce it to data and then throw
enough processing power at it. The project “might one day defeat death itself”.
Don`t you think that we should tell the geeks of Silicon Valley that the
problem has already been solved. Two thousand years ago the man, Jesus, was
publicly executed; certified dead (they speared him through his ribs just to
make sure); buried and on the third day after being killed he rose bodily from
the dead to be seen alive in public by many people over several weeks. Death
has indeed been solved: it has been “swallowed up in victory”.
Ron White
