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Article: Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering / On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics
- Article from:
- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering. By Michael J. Reiss and Roger Straugham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 288 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics. By Nancey Murphy and George F. R. Ellis. "Theology and the Sciences" series. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1996. xvi + 268 pp. $20.00 (paper).
"Only connect!" Forster's aphorism nicely summarizes these two books' arguments. While they serve very different purposes, each teaches us much about the relations among scientific, theological, and ethical inquiry. Improving Nature? offers a useful introduction to both the science of genetic ...