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Just months before he died, Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould co-signed a letter with his scientific rival Richard Dawkins. In it, these two eminent biologists vowed never to debate the proponents of “intelligent design theory.” This theory holds that the complexity of life...
The second conception is God as a source of moral sense, and might be termed the “God of biology.” Collins cited C. S. Lewis in his description of a common moral law that underlies the way people from all cultures try to relate to...
The British writer Matt Ridley, author of ?Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,? offered an even more cheerful perspective. Arguing that the early fears about tinkering with genes had proved to be groundless, he went on to dismiss the current concerns of many of his fellow Europeans...
Other participants in this all-star gathering of scientists, artists and business leaders weighed in with likely benefits from the advances in genomics. University of Montreal law professor Bartha Knoppers, for example, pointed out that they could lead to greater mutual understanding among peoples by illuminating how narrow our genetic...
It's also hard to imagine forbidding people to give their children the gene that currently protects about 1% of the population from developing AIDS when infected with HIV. Where it gets trickier is when we figure out what are the naturally occurring genes that put some people at the...