Subject: Genetically Engineered Resurrection
Date: May 25, 2008
From: Flash Light
To: Dr. Chic Schissel

Dr. Schissel:

In a recent issue of Pique you spoke in favor of an application of cloning technology for food production. As you know, SHSNY recently requested volunteers to serve as board members, and I submitted the platform which is reprinted below. I'm interested in your reaction to my platform, as one who understands the potential benefits and dangers of cloning technology.

"I wish to be considered for the SHSNY board because as a pantheist, I have a different approach to the current a/theist debate, which I hope you will find interesting and useful.

"Genetic engineering allows science to test questions about life which were heretofore metaphysical. For example, if your cat or dog dies, it is now possible to pay genetic engineers to clone the creature and thus attempt to resurrect it. Resurrection was heretofore a metaphysical question; now it's a question of genetic engineering.

"I propose to clone a willing dead atheist*, and thereby attempt to resurrect her/him from the dead by means of applied genetic engineering science. I believe if atheists succeed in raising their dead before the theists, they can call Pascal's wager, and win converts to science & reason.

"I don't intend to attempt this cloning on some remote island, but rather to pursue the right to resurrect dead atheists via cloning through proper legal channels, if only for the sake of addressing fundamental metaphysical questions in a new legal light: that of genetic engineering science."

Respectfully,

Flash

P.S.: I am posting this at www.pantheists.org, as a continuation of our prior correspondence, and will post your responses, should you choose to reply.

* By "willing dead atheist" I mean an atheist who agreed to be resurrected by genetic engineering prior to her/his death.