111. Evolution Topic: Evolution: Topic Index
make up of the first living cells that
necessitated the eventual appearance of mammals.
I conclude that Darwin's theory of evolution and explanation
of design does not include or exclude considerations of divine
action in the world any more
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112. Evolution Topic: Coda: Science as a Way of Knowing
replace DNA in defective
cells. All these remarkable achievements bear witness to the validity
of the scientific knowledge from which they originated.
Scientific knowledge is also remarkable in the way it emerges
by way of consensus and
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113. Maddox Bibliography Topic: 10. Neuroscience and the Human Soul / Human Respo...
Jeeves, Malcolm, ed. From Cells to Souls - and
Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
2004.
Lorimer, David, ed. Science, Consciousness and
Ultimate Reality . Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004.
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114. Technology Topic: Nano Technology and Nano Ethics - Introduction
10 percent of our red blood
cells with these nanobots, we could do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without
taking a breath or sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for four hours.
Nanobots could travel inside the body and brain to perform
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115. Technology Topic: What Questions Might a Nano-Ethicist Ask?
be taken up by other cells. What will be their effect? It has already been
shown that nano particles have been absorbed into the livers of research
animals; and they have caused brain damage in fish. Is there a risk
nanoparticles could
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116. Stem Cell Topic: Conclusion
and use
of human stem cells are well underway.
This report is intended to contribute to and inform this ongoing
dialogue.
We recognize that science does
not exist in isolation from the larger community that feels its effects,
whether
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117. Stem Cell Topic: Ethical Concerns
Moral Status of Human Stem Cells
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118. Stem Cell Topic: Uses in Research
where the use of
stem cells might be the key to understanding.
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119. Stem Cell Topic: Justice Considerations
potential of stem cells for treating and possibly curing many
serious diseases constitutes a major rationale for large-scale investments of
public and private resources in human stem cell research. To justify doing so, however, requires
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120. Stem Cell Topic: Private Sector Oversight
the possibility that stem
cells will become caught up in an expanded marketing of human body parts. In a day when the market for individual
genes, or even gene fragments , holds lucrative possibilities, great caution should be taken in ceding
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