Monday, May 3, 2010

What is God's Plan?

I would like to draw a connection between the super babies and birth control. One of the main themes in both of these projects is the idea of religion versus science. The question religion adresses is the idea that these two things are interfering with gods plan, and therefor shouldn't be allowed. This is a very tough issue because there isn't any clear cut way of arguing against a religous argument. The perspective religion comes from is incompadible with science, but as latour has shown us, outside forces do affect science, and religion is a great example of this. The other common thread for the two projects is the ethics of the good of an individual versus the good of society. In this case the individual being harmed is the potential baby. On the other side, society benifits by having either super babies that won't have an expensive disease, or society will have one less debate. The reason these topics are so contreversial is because the rights being trampled are that of an unborn child, a human being that can't argue for itself. To complicate matters further there is also the rights of the parents involved. By not allowing them any of these things their personal freedoms are also being limited. Science has given us this new dilema, but it doesn't have any way of adressing the ethics and religious debate that has insued.

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  1. I also found it very interesting how religion and God were so tied into all of the topics that were presented, either explicitly or through the idea of morality. While many try to do the science separately, it is important to point out, as you and Latour have done, that many other outside sources influence our science and the way we think about science. The way our science grows and develops is very much influenced by the religious debate around it.

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