The biological and genetic revolutions are poised to revolutionize our idea of what a human is.
Right now," said Conrad drily, "I am not interested in biological revolutions back on Terra.
"You're not going to recognize the full return of the biological revolution until you can simulate a living organism."
But many philosophers, theologians and scientists felt that basic discoveries about genetics, the brain and other subjects were bringing about a biological revolution capable of reshaping human existence.
The biological revolution went far more slowly than anything that important would have gone through mankind; still, it went, inexorably.
His books include Tradition and the biological revolution (1989) and Jewish biomedical law: Legal and extra-legal dimensions (2003).
His fears about the biological revolution are shared by many of his colleagues.
Published research and progress was slow until the 1970s' "biological revolution" that introduced many new techniques and commercial applications.
Although scientists had been predicting its advent at least since the beginning of the molecular biological revolution in the 1950's, gene therapy had proved problematic, not only scientifically but legally.
The world should embrace the biological revolution, not cringe from it.