Vital Harmonies - Molecular biology & our shared humanity

"Fleissner plunges a stake through the chest of vitalism, showing that living systems are subject to natural law. His profound humanism and his justification of ethical tenets through an evolutionary analysis is wonderful and insightful." Max Gottesman, Director, Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University Medical Center The clarity and concreteness of our new (half-century-old) molecular biology are a triumph of human ingenuity... .The contemplation of these hard-won truths should yield an ultimate serenity-in the spirit of self-transcendent religious meditation the world over (perhaps especially from that part of the world that I, in my Euro-American origins, call the East). We shall see that a deeper "touchstone for ethics" is also revealed through such contemplation- A celebration of life is before us, if we choose to understand it. From Vital Harmonies