Some values examined in this film include scientific progression, animal cloning, immortality and nature. ... Scientific progression and technology is encouraged in the preliminary scene of the film. ... Use of technology happens when sports star Johnny Phoenix is critically injured by an accident but is cloned to rear a perfect and flawless copy of him. ... This film comments on today's society and the ignorance the scientific community displays when manipulating nature's process. Gardening flowers is usually purely for the long-term satisfaction of growing them from seed or stem, b...

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Mary Shelley's gothic, seminal science fiction text "Frankenstein" depicts the enlightening scientific world during the Industrial Revolution, where its frame narrative cautions about the negative connotations involved with unnatural science. ... " Shelley contrasts the scientific revolution to the aftermath of technology portrayed in "Blade Runner", as these mutual texts in time reflect differing contexts of similar human experiences and values. ... Despite the overcrowded multi-cultural society, it ironically reaps isolation due to overtaking technologies, &quo...

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HUMAN CLONING Human nature has taught us that scientific breakthroughs have resulted in evil and dangerous exploitation. ... The successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, a major scientific breakthrough, leads to the definite possibility of human cloning. ... Other scientists said the technique could be used to create animal models for human disease for scientific study. ... The technology of human cloning is claimed to reverse heart attacks. ... This already brings out the exploit of a scientific discovery. ...

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They use ideas written about scientifically and use them to write a literary work of art. Many novels can be written on the same scientific idea. ... Each set of characters is faced with the moral side of their scientific work. ... Both Cliff and Robin are excellent examples of the moral fallibility of scientific minds. ... It is the morality of man and scientists that drives the scientific world to develop new technologies and to move forward into the future of the world. ...

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Many questions are raised such as "who will have access to these technologies and how scarce resources be allocated?... At this point within the scientific field, scientists have discovered that "gene's alteration often cannot be predicted"( David Koepsell). ... Genetic Engineering raises many concerns but there are multiple positive traits to this scientific field. ... This field of science may be intrusive of ethical, religious, and moral values, but this scientific field has the potential to solve many of the world's problems.  The products manufactured within thi...

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The transition from early 19th century England when Romanticism was challenging aspects of the dominant Enlightenment discourse founded upon science and rationalism to late 20th century American, a period influenced by Reaganomics and rampant scientific development in cloning and technology reveals a shift in societal values. ... Thus, Shelley criticizes the human tendency to disregard nature in favor of the pursuit of scientific discovery. ... Furthermore, while in Frankenstein nature is idealised and a counterpoint to Victor's scientific endeavours, Blade Runner is devoid of natural ...

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On the other hand, "for each blessing of modern technology, a corresponding risk comes into being" (Pojman, p. 895). ... This technology could find answers to questions about our bodies, our genetics, and maybe even about life itself. ... Imagine how it would feel to find out that twenty years ago, a bunch of doctors and scientists created you out of technology, not love. ... What many people don"t understand, is that its only scientific advancement, and when it begins, and I mean when, we"ll see breakthroughs the likes of which we can"t yet imagine. ...

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Cloning is not a horrible science experiment, but more of a monumental scientific development. ... There are many ways in which people may be able to benefit from this new technology and like anything else there are ways for negative uses and effects. With government regulation perhaps this technology can be put to good use and we can avoid and control problems that may arise. ... Now hope for the best and pray that this new technology will be used for moral purposes rather than for the devil's uses. ...

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We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree: 1 .to accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment; ...

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The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. ... Revealed religion was under siege, and the answer seemed to be to reject the new modernity or to reject traditional dogmas that relied on non-scientific epistemology (Columbia). ... The Philosophes, building on Locke and others and embracing many and varied currents of thought with a common supreme faith in reason, vigorously attacked religious and scientific dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and social-economic restrains. ... For the Encyclopedists, human improvement w...

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Some would argue that scientific explanations are the only means of explaining our existence, while others would argue that religion and the story of creation which is found in Genesis provide a sufficient account of the world's beginning. ... Science is constantly changing through the use of technology. ... Science deals with many ethical and moral questions concerning the new procedures and uses of modern technology. ... These are both fascinating concepts in a world today were people thirst for new technology. ... Were people are expanding the technology that God has given us to make w...

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The President remarks, "Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. ... He believes that man will develop the technology, science, and capability to have an indefinite life span. ... The world's population goes up fast enough without scientific help. ...

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The announcement and ensuing media attention brought the issue of cloning into the public spotlight, sparking a myriad of views and predictions in both the scientific and nonscientific communities. ... This has raised further ethical dilemmas about who will "own- cloning technology and its products. ... Such a body could decide which applications of animal cloning technology are ethically acceptable and viable, and which are not. ...

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Concern about living creatures now and in the future as well as doubts about the efficiency of the contemporary, large-scale application of scientific rationality as the exclusive 'solution' to this crisis are, amongst others the motivations for this study. ... This part also investigates Schelsky's thesis that from modern time onwards a specific epistemological model has become manifest, laying the foundations for our technological-scientific society. ... Theoretically defining the content of the concept 'technology' is so problematic that, when applying it we ...

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It developed during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and was a response to the challenge of medieval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and scientific studies. ... A quest for knowledge that may seem distant to the individual and yet as a society it is our advancement in technology and arts that measure our culture. ...

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