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100 1 $aSilver, Lee M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82218516
245 10 $aChallenging nature :$bthe clash of science and spirituality at the new frontiers of life /$cLee M. Silver.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEcco,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axvi, 444 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 407-425) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tSpirits -- $g1.$tSoul and spirit stories -- $g2.$tScience, faith, and religion -- $g3.$tSpiritual categories -- $g4.$tA scientific critique of the soul -- $g5.$tThe origin of spiritual beliefs -- $gPt. II.$tHuman beings -- $g6.$tNot quite human, but not quite not -- $g7.$tThe embryonic soul -- $g8.$tThe politics of cloning -- $g9.$tCounting souls -- $g10.$tHuman-animal combinations -- $gPt. III.$tMother Nature -- $g11.$tMetaphor and reality -- $g12.$tDarwin's unwanted explanation -- $g13.$tOrganic, all-natural food -- $g14.$tAll-natural medicine -- $gPt. IV.$tBiotechnology and the biosphere -- $g15.$tIn the service of humankind -- $g16.$tThe battle for Mother Nature's genes -- $g17.$tParadise lost and gained -- $gPt. V.$tThe final chapter? -- $g18.$tCulture, religion, and ethics -- $g19.$tTechnology -- $g20.$tMagic and the future of the human soul.
520 1 $a"Biotechnology is the oldest and most widespread of inventions, providing sustenance for humankind since the beginning of civilization. Until recently, however, its tools were crude and its implementation was opaque. Today new understanding in the life sciences brings both precision and transparency to the process. Modern inventions could alleviate human suffering, feed the world, and, at the same time, stem the tide of earth's ecological degradation. Yet ironically, biotechnology becomes evermore contentious. On the left, New Age secularists rail against genetically modified crops. On the right, religious Americans want embryo stem-cell research to be a felony. While they share seemingly little beyond mutual contempt, Silver argues that both political camps are driven - consciously or subconsciously - by a fundamental fear of violating a higher spiritual authority, imagined either as the creator God of the Bible, who rules from above, or a vague Mother Nature goddess here on earth." "In Challenging Nature, Silver offers a provocative look at the collision of science, religion, pseudoscience, and politics. A hands-on scientist who has actually manipulated genes, he leaves the laboratory, traveling the globe in what he calls "one scientist's journey from a cloistered community, in which life is assumed to be combinations of complex molecules and information flow between them, to a world of humanity dominated by soul and spirits, and to the intense chaos of Mother Nature at large." The result is a book that could provide a wake-up call for the West, where the economic ramifications of pseudoscience may be enormous: a future in which Asia becomes dominant in biotechnological advances."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118616
650 0 $aReligion and science.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112579
650 12 $aBioethics.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001675
650 12 $aReligion and Science.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012070
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