Many are wondering if computers can replace the work of doctors. Medical science works on a set of values such as simplicity, elegance, predisposition for control, and doctors do more than process data, they understand nuances and learn to master uncertainty. Doctors maintain a human touch that cannot be replaced by a data-processing machine, with the observation that such a machine could help the doctor’s work. Comparing the doctor with “a machine” can only be a compliment when referring to the efficient work of the profession, but without the life-giving love, medicine remains only a computer program and the patient a data sheet.

The contradiction between Christianity and transhumanism arises from different understandings of the nature of the human person, questioning in their views whether it can be modified in various ways with or without moral limits. Their different views on the relationship between children and parents also put them at odds as Christianity sees children as a "gift" from God, while transhumanism sees them as a "product" to be shaped. Christians and transhumanists also have different understandings of the future. If the former live with the hope that the Kingdom of God will come, transhumanists seek to shape the future by improving human potentialities.In conclusion, human enhancement should aim at the human ideal and not at the conception of entities other than human beings.

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A two-sided wooden icon from a monastery in Transylvania was submitted for multidisciplinary investigations involving X-Ray Fluorescence, Radiographic Photographyand Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. The most important part of the icon is St. Nicholas wooden icon, painted over forty years ago. The spectroscopic methods used revealed the painting materials composition, the status of the wooden stage, and the presence of resins as varnish (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy). On one side, the St Nicholasicon was painted over an old icon, St. Arch. Michael, which was evidenced by X-Ray Photography. The obtained data can serve for the preservation and the restoration of these wooden icons.