Item Detail
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28598
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English
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The Human Genome Project, Modern Biology, and Mormonism : A Viable Marriage?
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2002
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35
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4
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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61-71
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This essay is an attempt to understand new scientific breakthroughs within the context of the gospel by focusing on molecular biology and the Human Genome Project, since these two enterprises have been important catalysts for the Biological Revolution. First, a brief introduction to the church's historical attitude toward science will be presented to outline the context of the church's relationship with science. Then, a primer on molecular biology and the Human Genome Project will be presented. In addition, the importance of the Human Genome Project to society will be addressed, and some of the ethical issues associated with the genome data will be analyzed. Finally, these ethical issues will be applied to some doctrinal ideas to show how the Biological Revolution could complicate traditional Mormon doctrines. [From the text]