Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom

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Summary: A Good Writer uses the Thought of Others
Review: Playing God plays with us by its title, which plays to the fears and power of humans in approaching new DNA and related technologies. Ted Peters has academic credentials, but he does not use them other than to collect the work of some of the ethicists laboring in this vineyard and present it to us in a low level sensational style. He encloses his collected presentations of others' work in a peculiar theology of his own :
the proleptic yet determinist/predestinationist view of a modern Calvinsim.
This is not a useful guide for our ethical debate on this topic.