Article September 28, 1992 Issue

Second Thought

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"From DNA to DEAN"by Arthur Peacocke—December 1991

Zygon

"In the late 1940s, my generation had seen ... what the Allied forces had uncovered at Dachau, Auschwitz, and Belsen. We had looked into the bottomless pit of the potentiality of human evil. ...

"I tried, in my own way, to come to grips with the problem of evil. ... It certainly became clearer, then, and still seems to me valid, that even if the existence of evil raises baffling intellectual questions, ... we have been shown how evil is to be overcome in reality and not just in theory. ...

"It is love that overcomes evil ... and the one Creator God ... was also ... the One whose character is least misleadingly described as Love and whose outgoing activity is an expression of that same nature that shines through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ."

About the author

[Arthur Peacocke is a British biochemist and an Anglican priest. After a career teaching and researching at Oxford University in biochemistry (studies on DNA and other macromolecules), he became Dean of Clare College, Cambridge.]

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