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God and the Geneticists |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND SPIRIT |
| Author: Peter Brian Medawar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 984 Words, 5,914 Characters |
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Not so very many years ago people talked about "God and the physicists"--and the names of James Jeans and A.S. Eddington come at once to mind--but today the geneticists have elbowed their way to the footlights and a great change has come about in relations between science and religion: the physicists were in the main very well disposed towards God, but the geneticists are not.
It is upon the notion of randomness that geneticists have based their case against a benevolent or malevolent deity and against there being any overall purpose or design in nature.
Randomness enters into the genetic process at two levels: firstly in the entirely random process of mutation, which plays an important part in providing a candidature f...
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...morally solvent according to any standards of morals that human beings are accustomed to.
Believers are no more likely to be shaken in their faith by the misgivings of geneticists than they were confirmed in them by the patronizing approbation of theoretical physicists; for faith rests upon quite other foundations--as secure to those who hold them as the derivation of a logical theorem.
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