{"id":56034,"date":"2016-10-18T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stat_god_and_the_genome_a_geneticist_seeks_allies_among_the_faithful\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:31:26","slug":"stat_god_and_the_genome_a_geneticist_seeks_allies_among_the_faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56034","title":{"rendered":"(Stat) God and the genome: A geneticist seeks allies among the faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the human genome sacred? Does editing it violate the idea that we\u2019re made in God\u2019s image or, perhaps worse, allow us to \u201cplay God\u201d\u009d?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine weightier questions. And so to address them, Ting Wu is starting small.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the geneticist was here in a conference room outside Baltimore, its pale green walls lined with mirrors, asking pastors from area black churches to consider helping her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/13\/genome-religion-ethics-ting-wu\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the human genome sacred? Does editing it violate the idea that we\u2019re made in God\u2019s image or, perhaps worse, allow us to \u201cplay God\u201d\u009d? It\u2019s hard to imagine weightier questions. And so to address them, Ting Wu is starting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56034\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,175,168,104,435,184,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}