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  • Hear the Voice From Within
    The Watchtower—2007 | October 15
    • Francis S. Collins, a geneticist who led the U.S. government’s effort to decipher the human genome (DNA), said: “Selfless altruism presents a major challenge for the evolutionist. . . . It cannot be accounted for by the drive of individual selfish genes to perpetuate themselves.” He also said: “Some people sacrificially give of themselves to those who are outside their group and with whom they have absolutely nothing in common. . . . That doesn’t seem like it can be explained by a Darwinian model.”

      “The Voice of Conscience”

      5. What has often been observed in people?

      5 Dr. Collins points to one aspect of our altruism: “The voice of conscience calling us to help others even if nothing is received in return.”a

  • Hear the Voice From Within
    The Watchtower—2007 | October 15
    • a Similarly, Owen Gingerich, research professor of astronomy at Harvard University, wrote: “Altruism may well pose a question without . . . a scientific answer derived from observation of the animal kingdom. It just might be that the more convincing answer lies in another arena and has to do with those God-given qualities of humanness which include conscience.”

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