Robert Pollack (2)

!. Called "provocative," "magnificent," and "lucid" by critics, SIGNS OF LIFE presents a fresh and engaging look at nature's most wondrous chemical. DNA, biologist Robert Pollack suggests, should be seen as a work of great natural literature, a three-billion-year-old, continuously evolving text. Displaying a rare gift for metaphor, Pollack draws on his thirty years of research and study to show how DNA provides a complete instruction book for all living things. Until recently, the book has show more been indecipherable, but we are now beginning to read and edit this text in ways that will transform all our lives. Yet the power to change the human genome brings with it enormous responsibilities, and Pollack argues that if we fail to achieve a fuller understanding of the multiple meanings of DNA, we risk disaster. With the grace of a born writer and teacher, Pollack has written a book that will change the way people think about science, literature, and the future of our species. Source: GoodReads
2. Displaying a rare gift for metaphor, Pollack draws on his 30 years of research and study to show how DNA provides a complete instruction book for all living things. The most distinguished book about science I have seen so far this decade.--Horace Freeland Judson, Nature. Source: Publisher show less

Medicine and psychology/Medicine > Philosophy

About the author: quoting from the dust jacket, "Robert Pollack is a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, where he has received the Alexander Hamilton Medal, and is director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion. [One of his books, 'The Language and Meaning of DNA,' received the Lionel Trilling Award]." About the book: quoting from the dust jacket, "Are there parallels between the 'moment of insight' in science and the emergence of the 'unknowable' in show more religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's visions of the world." This work contains a bibliography and is well indexed. show less