Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality

“A clearly written, trenchant defense of biotechnology...wise, realistic...a well-crafted argument.” - New England Journal of Medicine

In Challenging Nature, Lee M. Silver offers a provocative look at the collision of science, religion, pseudoscience, and politics. A hands-on scientist who has actually manipulated genes, he leaves the laboratory, traveling the globe in what he calls “one scientist's journey from a cloistered community, in which life is assumed to be combinations of complex m...