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The answer is simple: the same inferior minds that fought the theory of evolution, freedom of the press, free speech and polio vaccines.
Yankelovich sees "the gradual evolution of a new implied contract between parents and their children." In his view, Traditionalists-the 57% of parents committed to stricter child rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense...
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this, because I know I am in great danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish...
"Dawkins," says Emmerich, "writes as though genes are conscious entities" and goes on to explain, as if Dawkins did not, that genes are not conscious and that "what Dawkins is really talking about" is simple evolution. However, Dawkins states explicitly "selfish genes are unconscious, blind, replicators" (p.215). He explains early...
Opponents of the new research acknowledge its likely bounty, but fear that those benefits might be outweighed by unforeseeable risks. What would happen, they ask, if by accident or design, one variety of re-engineered E. coli proved dangerous? By escaping from the lab and multiplying, their scenario goes, it...