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1 process, 99 percent of the time it is harmful or detri- 
2 mental to the organism involved. We contend that the 
3 most dangerous research begins when we are most convinced 
4 that we can secure our own genetic future; when we are 
5 convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we really 
6 know what we are doing; when we begin to exhibit the 
7 age-old attitude of arrogance. So the subject of this 
8 hearing convinces us that the biolog ical- technolog ical 
9 imperative moves us quickly toward genecide. 
10 Now, if nothing else, this testimony is 
11 presented in the hope that as people focus on issues 
12 of human security, a minimal degree of humility will 
13 be present; that acts of God might be recognized as 
14 something other than acts of man, blamed on God; and 
15 that if we are honest with ourselves and with others, 
16 we must eventually confess that we always end up 
17 knowing less than when we started. 
18 Finally, the directions and dimensions of 
ig the biological revolution developing from this new 
20 technology, a technology that will most likely become 
21 commonplace soon, are leading some of us in the 
22 Christian community to oppose it totally. We are 
23 being blinded to any distinctions in kinds of 
24 research by what seem to us to be misinformed and 
25 mistaken assumptions underlying the work, and by the 
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