... to distant places like Mars by (1) recording the exact state of all the body's cells (including those of the brain); (2) destroying the body and brain; (3) transmitting the information at the speed of light to Mars; where (4) a Replicator creates out of new matter a body and brain exactly like the old one. Suppose Parfit enters the machine and is " teletransported to Mars." Would ... , then, for a Christian to retain the old theory, i.e., to believe that our old bodies will be raised? Two points should be made here. The first is that the most natural reading of Pa ul in I Corinthian 15 i...

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