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spite of the numerous critiques of modern western science by
philosophers and feminists, the norms and culture of Science
remain unchanged and scientific knowledge particularly in the
field of Biology has been increasing by leaps and bounds in
a linear reductionist manner so that the understanding of all
life on this planet has been reduced to a small stretch of the
DNA molecule- the gene. The majority of questions currently
asked in Biology are centered on the gene and it seems that
the paradigm “our Biology is our Destiny” has begun
to take center stage once more as the major explanation for
the way in which life is organized. This linear approach to
the creation of scientific knowledge and the understanding of
complex problems, which began in the seventeenth century with
Bacon and Descartes, appears to be approaching its limit. An
analysis of the new technologies of Genetic Engineering and
cloning of human cells suggests that in order to halt our journey
into another “brave new world” we need to begin
to understand life as a complex of interactions between molecules
and among organisms, including humans. |
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