>From <a href="http://www.stnews.org/articles.php?article_id=646&category=books">Science & Theology News</a>, a surprisingly positive article on Bailey's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591022274/qid=1121678758/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8311910-8300920?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">
Liberation Biology</a>.<br>In
Liberation Biology, Ronald Bailey, a science writer for Reason
magazine, questions assumptions and conclusions made by biotechnology
detractors, or bioconservatives. He argues that bioconservative
criticisms of the biotech revolution are more political gimmick than
scholarly endeavor.<br>Countering Fukuyama's somber statement that life
extension could exert negative influence upon society, Bailey argues,
after Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, that society exists for the sake of the
individual and not vice versa.<br>Even a cursory look at the evolution
of the technique over the last five decades should convince us that
much of the criticism against biotech fails in the face of contingency
of technology. Some are afraid that biotech is assuming the role of a
moral arbitrator and should be shelved. But a faith in creative
potential and freedom to actualize it would turn biotech into a truly
revolutionary instrument of human evolution. Just like the transition
from Gutenberg to Web publishing, biotech is causing a fundamental
shift in human cognition. <br><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">Liberation Biology is rightfully about the biological path to freedom</span>.
It gives a resounding rebuttal to biological determinism by arguing a
case for biology as a technique and not tyranny. Bailey's daring work
that inspires readers to take a critical look at our religious and
cultural beliefs while they undergo inevitable transformation as
biological beings.<br>