The Myth of Infallibility
Author | : Hugo Adam Bedau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugo Adam Bedau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Cenacle |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Popes |
ISBN | : 9780912927411 |
Author | : Sheldon Krimsky |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674071093 |
Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.
Author | : Daniel S. Medwed |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108138675 |
For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations and identifies lingering challenges. By studying the dataset of DNA exonerations, we know that precise factors lead to wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, dishonest informants, poor defense lawyering, weak forensic evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. In Part I, scholars discuss the efforts of the Innocence Movement over the past quarter century to expose the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and to implement lasting reforms. In Part II, another set of researchers looks ahead and evaluates what still needs to be done to realize the ideal of a more accurate system.
Author | : Raimon Panikkar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. L. Farnsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : New Jerusalem Church |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. R. Jevons |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2022-06-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000630641 |
First published in 1969, The Teaching of Science primarily deals with science teaching in secondary schools and universities but its searching discussion of criteria concerns all who have to do with education. The concise but well-documented treatments of the nature of the scientific process and of the social implications of science will be of interest to many scientists and especially useful for teachers of general studies. Professor Jevons looks first at why we should teach science and thereby sheds light on the more immediately practical problems of how it should be done. He thus does more than merely add to the already large volume of exhortation to make it more attractive and intellectually stimulating.
Author | : Kevin T. Keating |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-06-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532635540 |
Kevin Keating examines the major writings of the Roman Pontiffs from Pius IX in the last half of the nineteenth century to the most recent writings of Francis. He explores the shift in papal focus from internal church matters and attacks on modern thought to concern for matters affecting all of humanity--not just spiritually, but socially, politically, and economically as well. Looming over all of these teachings is the specter of the doctrine of infallibility. First defined in 1870 to cover only papal infallibility, it would be expanded in the 1960s to include the exercise of infallibility by the worldwide college of bishops. Keating discusses the most significant themes dealt with by popes during this period--the Bible, religious freedom, church-state relations, social doctrine, human sexuality, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue. He describes how papal teaching has changed, developed, and even been contradicted by later popes, although they have failed to expressly acknowledge departures from prior teaching. He details how the doctrine of infallibility, far from serving to bolster the credibility of papal teaching, often has served to undermine it.
Author | : Oliver Quick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521190991 |
This illuminating study explores the role of professionals, patients, regulation and law in improving patient safety.
Author | : D.R. Oliver |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2021-08-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1644629666 |
While many regret our history and existence, there is one thing I know for sure—the Creator would not have done this any other way. D.R. Oliver has completed her new book “The Myth of Sin”: a fascinating work drawn from her faith journey growing up in an atheist household to being an engaged churchgoer to finally exploring the possibilities of God through quantum physics and embracing faith-based concepts shaped by logical analysis. The author writes, “While many regret our history and existence, there is one thing I know for sure—a Creator would not have done this any other way.” Published by Page Publishing, D.R. Oliver’s engrossing book is a provocative choice for reader of any- or no- religious persuasion.