RT Article
T1 Evolution, biotechnology, and the normative significance of created order
JF Toronto journal of theology
VO 31
IS 1
SP 15
OP 25
A1 McKenny, Gerald P. 1957-
LA English
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1634250508
AB It is widely assumed by proponents and opponents of biotechnology alike that the permissibility of biotechnological alteration of human nature and respect for human nature as constituent of a divinely created order are incompatible. I argue, however, that concepts of created order that accommodate the change and variation of human nature that is due to evolutionary processes also permit in principle the alteration of human nature by biotechnology. It follows that opponents of biotechnological alteration of human nature cannot legitimately appeal to these concepts.
DO 10.3138/tjt.3151