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    This document discusses issues relating to genetic engineering. It presents knowledge claims that scientific experiments could have dangerous outcomes and that creating new forms of life rapidly is unreasonable. It also notes that creating life resembling humans raises ethical concerns. The document examines how emotion, imagination, reason, and intuition relate to views on genetic engineering experiments. It provides examples of personal and shared knowledge and discusses how scientific scope, language, methodology, and historical development inform analysis of genetic engineering. It identifies ethics and religious knowledge as related areas of knowledge and poses knowledge questions on the role of emotion and imagination in assessing danger, how far scientific progress justifies genetic engineering, and the validity of imagination for scientific hypotheses.

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    This document discusses issues relating to genetic engineering. It presents knowledge claims that scientific experiments could have dangerous outcomes and that creating new forms of life rapidly is unreasonable. It also notes that creating life resembling humans raises ethical concerns. The document examines how emotion, imagination, reason, and intuition relate to views on genetic engineering experiments. It provides examples of personal and shared knowledge and discusses how scientific scope, language, methodology, and historical development inform analysis of genetic engineering. It identifies ethics and religious knowledge as related areas of knowledge and poses knowledge questions on the role of emotion and imagination in assessing danger, how far scientific progress justifies genetic engineering, and the validity of imagination for scientific hypotheses.

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    This document discusses issues relating to genetic engineering. It presents knowledge claims that scientific experiments could have dangerous outcomes and that creating new forms of life rapidly is unreasonable. It also notes that creating life resembling humans raises ethical concerns. The document examines how emotion, imagination, reason, and intuition relate to views on genetic engineering experiments. It provides examples of personal and shared knowledge and discusses how scientific scope, language, methodology, and historical development inform analysis of genetic engineering. It identifies ethics and religious knowledge as related areas of knowledge and poses knowledge questions on the role of emotion and imagination in assessing danger, how far scientific progress justifies genetic engineering, and the validity of imagination for scientific hypotheses.

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    Applying TOK Skills Worksheet: Genetic Engineering

    Knowledge Claims extracted from real-life situation


    Scientific experiments could potentially have extremely dangerous outcomes.
    There is an inherent part of risks in experimentation that we should accept.
    Creating new forms of life in a few years when its taken millennia to Nature it is
    not reasonable.
    Creating new forms of life that resemble humans is like manipulating human lives,
    its unethical.
    Ways of Knowing
    Emotion: How do we relate to a creature that is half human? Half human, half
    rights? What does it feel to be human?
    Imagination: How far can we go in creating new forms of life? What will the new
    possibilities open to us? Can we go too far?
    Reason: Evidence shows that scientific progress and innovation can greatly benefit
    but also harm people (medical research/weapons) What are the boundaries in
    genetic engineering? Who will be the wise men?
    Intuition: Some experiments may seem wrong or dangerous intuitively. How far
    does intuition play a role in deciding what is wrong or right?
    Personal and Shared Knowledge
    Personal : My religious values help me distinguish scientific experiments as right or
    wrong.
    Personal: I have seen animals tortured in lab experiments and I think its too cruel .
    Shared : We know that many diseases have been cured after years of
    experimentation, genetic engineering is a specific form of experimentation.
    Shared: We know that from past experience that genetic engineering can be
    dangerous without ethical safeguards (eugenics)
    Knowledge Framework (main AOK) How does the Knowledge framework for this AOK help us
    analyse the Real Life Situation?
    Scope: Scientific experiments are based on hypotheses, outcomes can only be speculated
    until sufficient evidence becomes available. Scientists required to demonstrate responsibility
    in experiments to avoid dangerous consequences.
    Language: Scientific language is precise in order to eliminate ambiguity which might affect
    the reasoning process. It can also lack emotion and treat living creatures as objects.
    Historical development: Scientific experimentation has a long history of pivotal shifts of
    thinking. Animals and even people having no ethical rights.
    Methodology: Measurement involves interaction with the world, but this interaction can
    change the aspect of the world we are trying to measure.
    Links between main AOK and related AOKs:
    Ethics: Consequences can be dangerous for the objects of experimentation themselves, how
    far can we justify suffering in the name of science?
    Religious KS: Most religions are quite suspicious of or condemn scientific experiments that
    manipulate human life forms.
    Knowledge Questions
    1.
    To what extent do emotion and imagination play a role in concluding that certain
    quests for knowledge are dangerous?
    2.
    To what extend can scientific progress justify genetic engineering?
    3.
    To what extend can imagination be used a valid source of hypotheses in science?

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