What is it about?

Religious / spiritual views of the attempt to "create life" by engineering biology.

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Why is it important?

Biotechnology in the 21st century has become increasingly powerful in its ability to manipulate and even create DNA, the molecular basis of life. This presents a challenge to religious and spiritual views of life, and mankind's relationship to and within it.

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The increasing relevance of this subject is seen in the recent announcement by the J. Craig Venter Institute of the "Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome."

Mr William J Daley
SUNY at Buffalo

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This page is a summary of: Synthetic Biology and Religion, Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, January 2016, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/eph.v23i2.27730.
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