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by G. Charran
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| In 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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