The world of science has experienced many profound breakthroughs and advances in the twentieth century, but none perhaps as great as that of genetic engineering. However, the twentieth century society is not prepared or even willing at times to accept the moral and ethical controversies genetic engineering is creating. Genetic engineering, defined as “the use or manipulation of an individuals genetic material in order to produce desired characteristics or results in the same individual, other …showed first 75 words of 1870 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1870 total…Progress or peril? New York: Lerner Publications Company, 1997 Pearcey, Nancy R. and Charles B. Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy. Illinois: Crossway Books, 1994 Stumpf, Samuel Enoch, Philosophy: History & Problems. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994 http://online.sfsu.edu/-rone/GE.htm (7/30/99) Ron Epstein “Ethical and Spiritual Issues in Genetic Engineering” AHIMSA discussion forum on March 17, 1998 and published in Ahimsa Voices: a Quarterly Journal for the Promotion of Universal Values, 5(4), Oct. 1998, pp. 6-7