Thursday, June 12, 2008

Enhancement Biotechnology and Natural Law By Ryan T. Anderson and Christopher Tollefsen

New biotechnologies promise to revolutionize human existence—not only by delivering therapeutic treatments and cures but also by offering physical and mental enhancements: creating stronger bodies and more powerful minds for ourselves and for the children we carefully select. Biotechnology will offer us the option of controlling our genetic composition in ways that were previously unimaginable, as we (in British bioethicist John Harris’ words) replace “natural selection with deliberate selection, Darwinian evolution with ‘enhancement evolution.’”

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