Saturday, January 24, 2009

Time To wonder and Ponder.

Sometimes its inevitable to stop and think why most things tend to remain the same.
This is the case as partains the social and economic sructures in the society especially poverty and behaviour of individual e.g social vices like drug abuse and theft.
Am tempted to think of the gaia theory to explain such but to what level this is justified is subject to debate since it might reduce to the reductionist school of thought.
Its impossible to think of issues in a linear manner especially concerning social issues.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Genetic Determinism

This is a science which has failed the reality test.
Some scientists after understanding the DNA and the gene concluded that an organism is just but the sum total of its genes i.e your genes determine ehat you are, do and even ypur diseases.
But reality proves thet not only does DNA give instrictions, it also gets information from the environment and changes accordingly-fluidity of the genome.
Before Dolly was cloned, they had made Tracy after genetically manipulating her genes so as to produce a certain Amino acid in large quantities but failed to pass the same genes to her offsprings hence the Idea of cloning was born so as to avoid loss of essential genes.
Some genes have been associated with some diseases E.g diabetes,cancer and cystic fibroids to mention but a few.But reality has proven that environment plays a part for disease development.
So genetic determinism is fundamentally wrong.