Challenging Nature The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life

Name: Challenging Nature The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
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ISBN: 9780060582678

ISBN-10: 0060582677

ISBN-13: 9780060582678

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lee M. Silver

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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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Prologue



Spirits



Soul and Spirit Stories



Science, Faith, and Religion



Spiritual Categories



A Scientific Critique of the Soul



The Origin of Spiritual Beliefs



Human Beings



Not Quite Human, but Not Quite Not



The Embryonic Soul



The Politics of Cloning



Counting Souls



Human-Animal Combinations



Mother Nature



Metaphor and Reality



Darwin's Unwanted Explanation



Organic, All-Natural Food



All-Natural Medicine



Biotechnology and the Biosphere



In the Service of Humankind



The Battle for Mother Nature's Genes



Paradise Lost and Gained



The Final Chapter?



Culture, Religion, and Ethics



Technology



Magic and the Future of the Human Soul


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index