Do new discoveries in human genomics have any significance for the dialogue between science and religion in general, or for our sense of human uniqueness in particular?
DNA in a test tube is prosaic: the "stuff of life" looks a lot like what emerges from a child's runny nose. But there has long been something taboo in that tube.
At the age of 65, my grandfather the manager of a leather tannery in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, suffered a severe heart attack. He had chest pains and wa...