211. Faith and Reason Topic: Steven Weinberg on Creating a Purpose
Genetics,
Ethics and Theology
Evolution
and Creation
Science
and Religion in Conflict?
'Faith
and Reason' Transcript
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212. Faith and Reason Topic: Ted Peters on Playing God
Genetics,
Ethics and Theology
Evolution
and Creation
Science
and Religion in Conflict?
'Faith
and Reason' Transcript
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213. Biography: Lee Silver
including Mouse Genetics :
Concepts and Practice , and Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave
New World , which has been published in 14 languages since its initial
publication in 1997. The primary focus of that book is the
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214. General Term: Determinism
This understanding of genetics and human freedom,
or unfreedom as it were, illustrates the extent to which genetic determinists
place the influence of nature (biology and genetics) over nurture (society and
family). The fundamental premises
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215. General Term: Eugenics
involves using principles of genetics to "improve"
humankind. Though presently out of favor, the idea that this was a good thing
was fairly universally accepted throughout the early part of this century.
Related Topics:
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216. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Book Section: Full Book Table of Contents
day
4.6 Mendelian
genetics leading to neo-Darwinism - 4.7 The central characteristic
of life - 4.7.1 How DNA codes for information - 4.7.2 Elegance
in biology and physics - 4.7.3 DNA, the importance of mutation
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4.8 Some
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217. Intelligent Design Topic: Is the flagellum complex? Computing the crucial pr...
chose to ignore the role of genetics in
the formation of biotic systems. That is an astounding choice. But there may be
reasons for taking that questionable option. Choosing to deal realistically
with the role of genetics would have presented
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218. Intro Topic: Genes and Sin
so than with the science of
genetics . For better or worse, genetics is challenging our ideas about what it
means to be human in powerful and often disturbing ways. Before we rush to
conclusions, we would do well to think through these issues
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219. Question Home: What Makes us Human?
The Person in Light of Human Genetics
Topic Sets
A Non-Reductive
Physicalist Account of Human Nature... (Nancey
Murphy , 9 topics)
Neuroscience
and the Soul... (Nancey Murphy, 13
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220. Science and Suffering Topic: Suffering and Buddhism - Paul Ingram
to science, suffering, and genetics is problematic, Ingram says.
“Buddhists have been exploring the relationship between the Buddhist doctrines
of interdependence and impermanence with contemporary physics and biological
evolutionary
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