The Art of Man

Day: Saturday, April 22   Hour: 9:30 - 10:00 pm

By: Babu Gogineni

Humanity nourishes its creative spirit through artistic and cultural achievement. As humanity tunes into the rhythm of the cosmos by discovering and understanding nature’s laws, we cultivate our highest art: science. Modern superstition can offer a real challenge to scientific progress: as it had done, for example, in the biological sciences when the first genetic advances were made in the 1800s, when the first hybridization experiments were undertaken, when the first test tube babies were produced, and most recently when biotechnology experiments have been carried out. As doomsday prophets from the environment movement warn of disaster and untold misery, humankind succumbs to fear at great cost to itself. There seem to be no inherent ethical dilemmas involved in cloning higher animals - problems that could arise because of the immense possibilities created by modern biology are not so complex that they cannot be tackled with the application of reason, that great resource of humanity. <<Back to Conference program