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Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom,Used
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Product Description Since the original publication ofPlaying God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make deft connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with wisdom. From Library Journal Peters, the author of Sin (LJ 4/1/94) and author or editor of eight other semipopular books on science, theology, and New Age religion, was funded by the National Institutes of Health to look into ethical and theological aspects of the Human Genome Project, an attempt to map the human gene structure. Here he debunks the "myth" that our lives are controlled by genes or some combination of genetics and environment, further arguing that we need a theology of freedom. Only fanatics will find his analyses unreasonable, but readers will notice that the book depends on two kinds of sentences?scientific and theological. Scientific sentences score points when they report data verifiable by methods the scientific community approves. But what of theological sentences? Must they report the will of the scriptural God, draw on JudeoChristian tradition (as Peters thinks), or just be reasonable? Peters adds his theological score to the scientific score, which is like adding basketball scores to baseball scores. He hints that science and theology are part of a larger game defined by Western culture, but this would introduce cultural relativism into both. Even then, would they add up? For comprehensive collections only.?Leslie Armour, Univ. of Ottawa, CanadaCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review " Playing God? makes an important and thoughtprovoking contribution to the debate about genetics. Above all, it demonstrates that scientific facts are open to multiple theological interpretations. Creationism is only one end of the spectrum of relations between science and religion. Peters show us the opposite end, a theology that embraces gene science." New Scientist"In this remarkable book, Ted Peters explores the fallacies of the 'gene myth' and presents a resounding array of arguments against this kind of allencompassing genetic determinism.." From the foreword by Francis S. Collins Director, National Center for Human Genome Research
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