Genetic determinism

Peter J. Leithart
August 1, 2011
Category: Science

Ted Peters points out the duplicity of genetic determinism: “The growing myth of genetic determinism blows first in one direction: if we are programmed totally by our DAN< then what we think is human freedom is in fact a delusion.  Then the myth blows the opposite way: if we can apply our best engineering technology to DNA, then we can gain control over nature and guide our own evolutionary future.  The genes determine the future; we want to determine the genes.”


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