 Alright, welcome everyone to the 2012 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. It's a pleasure to be here with all of you. This morning as I was driving in to the conference with a friend, Leonard Reel, who's here visiting with us from Canada, like several others of you here, he traveled a long way to be with us. We were discussing what the purpose of this conference is. And one of the things that he said right away was the thing that was already on my mind, and that is that the purpose of this conference is to bring together two things that are in many person's minds very opposed to each other. And those things are science and religion, or perhaps technology and spirituality. People see these things, unfortunately, as being diametrically opposed to each other. And what the Mormon Transhumanist Association is about, and what this conference today is about, is about bringing together these things that so many people think are opposed and showing that not only are they compatible, but they actually build each other up, that they're made for each other even, that spirituality and technology require each other, that science and religion require each other, to be in their best manifestation, they're made, they're good for each other. That's what we're talking about today. 150 years ago, more than 150 years ago, Joseph Smith was organizing what he called the School of the Prophets. And in Doctrine and Covenants 88, we read some of the words he wrote when talking about the organization of the School of the Prophets. There we read, therefore, verily I say unto you, my friends, call your solemn assembly, as I have commanded you, and as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom. Ye, seek ye out of the best books, words of wisdom, seek learning, even by study, and also by faith. Today we are bringing together both study and faith, both wisdom and inspiration. That's what the Mormon Transhumanist Association is about, and that's what all of us will be speaking about today.