Fabricator
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Melissa Gwyn

“Would it really be so destructive to our self-esteem as a species to acknowledge that we, like our primate relatives, are possessed of an inherited repertory of potential responses and mental structures? Would we forfeit all sense of agency and revolutionary possibility if we admitted that we, like our primate relatives, are subject to the rules of DNA replication (not to mention the law of gravity)? In their horror of “determinism,” academic creationists seem to forget postmodernism’s finest insight: that, whatever else we may be, we are indeed creatures of symbol and “text.” We may be, in many ways, constrained by our DNA, but we are also the discoverers of DNA — and, beyond that, the only living creature capable of representing its biological legacy in such brilliant and vastly condensed symbols as “DNA.”

From an essay entitled “The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack” from 1997 by Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh