The Eighth Day is the second book of Euler Renato Westphal, originally published in Portuguese with the title O Oitavo Dia: Na era da seleção natural.
In the second book of Euler Westphal, professor of Systematic Theology and Ethical Issues, the Brazilian researcher analyses the scientific and technological advancement to propose a multidisciplinary dialogue about bioethics.
In the post-modern religion the eschatological and messianic hope is no more in Jesus Christ, but in the efforts to find out a possibility to immortality, good wealth and eternal life through genetical improvement.
The wishes of the post-modern man are to reach the perfect human being, the great wealth, without illness and death, the brave new world.
The reality of the Almighty God, Creator and Redeemer, is no more recognized by post-modern man, who now adopt the performativity and lucrativity as a new dogma of scientific religion.