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DNA! The language of the second half of our century has made a place for these letters as both an adjective and a noun. Biologically, we may turn it into a verb to "DNA" a person or an animal or a plant, to transform it at its most basic physical level. If I may use an almost unavoidable pun, the discovery of DNA, the working out of its structure and its alteration for therapy or …

…also enhance this gift through our learning and through our love for each other, for the creation and ultimately for God. It is our love of God, growing out of his love for us, that directs the use of the Human Genome Initiative's results. What a glorious challenge God has given us in the opportunity to be present at the beginnings of our ability deliberately to "create" the new human! What will be our response?