X-Message-Number: 4034 Date: 18 Mar 95 10:29:09 EST From: "Kent, Saul" <> Subject: Faith According to recent postings, some of you consider "faith" an essential part of cryonics. I disagree. My own personal involvement in cryonics has never had anything to do with faith. My interest in cryonics is based on existing scientific evidence regarding methods of freezing and vitrification as well as methods to repair damage in biological systems and to regenerate biological systems, plus evidence that scientific advances to improve cryonics technology have been made in the past and are continuing to be made in the present. My opinion that it may be possible to restore cryonics patients to life in the future is not based on faith in the future of science, but in the research advances currently being made by today's cryonics scientists. I have no faith at all in future scientists, only in today's scientists. If they do not continue their work, there will *be* no future cryonics scientists. If they receive enough funding to achieve rapid progress in cryonics, the future could come *very* soon! My message for those of you who *have* been relying on faith is to give it up and put your money on the line for the only pathway to success...scientific research to achieve suspended animation. Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4034