A question to Dr. Collins and any other informed people who might be around:
Some recent stories in the press have stated that one insight from the Human
Genome Project has been that our concept of "race" is pretty meaningless --
that the genetic differences that make up "race" are pretty small in
comparison to all the diversity in the genome. People are saying things like
"race is a social construct, not a scientific one" and suggested that
biomedical research that makes race a big factor is on an unproductive path.
A couple of questions:
1) Do you agree with the statements above?
2) Do you see these results as potentially helpful in advancing the Christian
ideal that "there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, etc.," and making
progress against racism? Or are the people who most need to be cured of
racism the most unlikely to pay heed to such scientific results?
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