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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This would be true growth, say the geneticists, and evolution would soon improve the original breed. DNA would eventually wrap itself in cells and retire to their nuclei to give orders. Cells would later band together into multicelled animals, but they would not escape the commands of the DNA within them. Samuel Butler wrote: "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." Geneticists like to make this remark more general: "All plants, and animals and humans," they say, "are DNA's way of making more...
...when two of them meet in the same fertilized egg. They know that some damaged genes in humans have bad effects so subtle that they are hard to measure or count. They suspect that radiation damage to genetic material may have many unknown relations to cancer. Most of them say emphatically that the less radiation on the loose, the better it is for the world...
Beadle does not take an extreme position. "As a geneticist," he says, "I am prepared to say that fallout is biologically harmful and that we must therefore recognize a moral responsibility to humanity to reduce it to the lowest possible level." He is not sure "whether nuclear-weapons testing has a military or other benefit that outweighs the biological harm." But, like other geneticists, he knows too much to be indifferent to the problem...
What the bishops have to say on these and other matters will be attentively followed, even in near-empty-church England. Wrote Britain's Reynolds News: "This coming month will provide an opportunity to test what has almost become a new Christian dogma of our time: that though very few go to church, everyone is interested in what the churches are doing . . . This is the church's chance...
...stepped Major George Kemper. Topping, a World War II infantry captain, promptly warned the major that the other newsmen were Communists and added: "I suggest you and your group get together and decide whether you want to hold a press conference and, if so, what you would like to say...