Stem cell research, genetically modified crops, animals
developed with personalized human organs for transplantation, and
other previously inconceivable biotech applications could increase
the quality of all human lives and maximize the health of the
biosphere. But ironically, as the science becomes more precise and
transparent, it also becomes more contentious. In "Challenging
Nature," Silver argues that although they seem to have little in
common, Christian fundamentalists opposed to embryo research and
New Age organic food devotees are both driven by a deeply rooted
fear that biotechnology--in some guise--challenges the sovereignty
of a higher or deeper transcendent authority. In the short term,
Silver writes, Eastern spiritual traditions will give Asian
countries a research advantage. But over the millennia, human
nature may have the potential to remake Mother Nature in the image
of an idealized world.
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