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The Problem of Evil, Dystopia, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Brothers Karamazov' | Prof. Stephen Meredith

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Dolly the Sheep - The Brave New World

In 1996, Dolly the sheep was born. She was a clone through the process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. And I show this to remind us about the fact that it did not work on the first try, or the second, or the third, or the fourth. It worked on the 277th try. So, there's a lot of randomness that goes into this. A few years later, this is 2017, this headline appeared. The title Brave New World is a very ironic quotation from Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. In the play Miranda, the character Miranda is awed by what she sees. This is something we all want to do and should do. But yet

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