The Importance of the Third Wave of Biology

There was a meeting at the Royal Society. Under the weight of accumulating scientific evidence it's beginning to turn, I think. The religion is a very tricky and quite often in human history, painful influence. Here's three of you lovely, cheerful, splendid men and you say if there's a code, there's a new thing. There are mechanisms by which one could imagine a mind participating or intervening... All right. Haven't you ever heard of the Inquisition? Haven't you never heard of the religious wars? Don't you understand the importance of the American settlement whereby we had the Puritans in New England?"