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Dr. Lee M. Silver is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also has joint[…]
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The Western spiritual tradition, according to molecular biologist Lee Silver, programs religious and non-religious alike to seek higher powers, and these powers—both God and Mother Nature—are getting in the way of biotech. Silver argues against disadvantaging individuals for a greater ideology, and points out the Eastern religious tradition as one that can accept responsible biological experimentation.


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