But I still think it is difficult to talk about universals. Scientists were often on the defensive these days, he agreed. They spend so much of their working life on socially beneficial things, not bombs and poison gases, and they feel they are getting pretty well maligned. Djerassi had been angered by ill-educated attacks on the products of scientific discovery, but felt calmer now that he was trying to set the record straight by writing. But if there is a God, he has made it possible for us to do these things.
People talk about things being 'unnatural'.
The example was not picked at random. Because we are practising death control more effectively than they are practising birth control. It was a world in which one fifth of the population consumed 90 per cent of the resources, where, according to a recent UN report, a 1 per cent annual deduction from the richest 200 individuals would buy primary education for every child. Tithing on an international scale would be reasonable. Fertility treatment in the US cost between Dollars 20,000 and Dollars 100,000 a couple.