However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.