11. Interview: Francis Collins
On Genetic Engineering, Medical Research and a Call to Healing
On Potential Dilemmas with Genetic Engineering
On Human Cloning
On The Role Religious People
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12. Science and Suffering Topic: Feminist & Process Theodicies - Nancy Howell
Radical
Suffering and Genetic Defects.
In tragic cases, Howell says, genetic expression is
defective and fosters radical suffering. The question is, what do we mean by
genetic defect? Cole-Turner,
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13. Resources: Bibliography for Peters on Genetics
"The Church and
Genetic Engineering ," Pronouncement of the Seventeenth General Synod,
United Church of Christ, Fort Worth, Texas, 1989, p.4.
"United Methodist
Church Genetic Task Force Report to the 1992 General
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14. Intro Topic: Genetics
genes - what is known as genetic
engineering . While this technology may lead to new cures for inherited diseases,
and even (it is hoped) for many kinds of cancers, some religious believers have
been resistant to genetic engineering. Some have
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15. Science and Suffering Topic: Can we Play God? - David Perry
Perry says,
is that Genetic engineering is often judged as unnatural or said to violate
natural law. But such an argument is flawed, Perry argues, because strictly
in descriptive or empirical terms, the claim
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16. Divine Action Topic: Peters, Ted. Playing God with Our Evolutionary Fu...
human dignity regardless of genetic
inheritance and the technical possibilities in genetic engineering , but he
recognizes that the underlying reasons for prejudice and discrimination today
are not germ-line intervention. A more serious challenge
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17. Genetics Topic: Genetics & Ethics: Topics Index
the ethical implications
of genetic engineering .
Yet there is more. The theology of co-creation
leads Ronald Cole-Turner to a beneficent vision: For the
church, it is not enough to avoid the risks. Genetic engineering
must contribute in
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18. Biography: Thomas Shannon
recent works have been on genetic engineering and include the
edited collection Genetic Engineering: The Documentary History (Greenwood Press,
1999) and Made in Whose Image? Genetic
Engineering and Christian Ethics (Humanity Books, 1999).
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19. Genetics Topic: Treating Faulty DNA
circumstances would
human genetic engineering not be a moral good? In the broadest
sense, when it detracts from, rather than contributes to, the
dignity of man....Somatic cell enhancement engineering would threaten
important human values in two
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20. Science and Suffering Topic: Theological Perspectives on Genetics - Ron Cole...
Theological Perspectives on Genetics - Ron Cole-Turner
While Perry demonstrated the weaknesses of several popular
theological arguments against genetic engineering , Dr. Ronald Cole-Turner, the
H. Parker Sharp Associate Professor of Theology
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