The centuries - old debate between two contradictory doctninesthose of the hawk and the dove - continues into our own time. The hawks strive for possessions, pleasure and power. They believe that it does not matter if others suffer from thelr achieving aims. The doves strive to understand the meaning and purpose of life. They believe in the principle "live and let live". Many earlier avihzations such as the Babylonian, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman have witnessed the dance of destruction. In the dvilzatons the old moral values were lost. The hawks dominated the doves. So the dvilization dechned and fell. Today we are in a similar critical period. We read in news papers of scientists who suppress or distort facts to obtain grants or fame, of doctors ah misdiagnose and Operate wrongly on pabents, of industnalists who are responsible for releasing large quantties of greenhouse gases mto the atmosphere without thinlong of its implications, of hawks who establish those projects in the Third World’ and they are risky in the ‘First World’. Recent examples from the subjects of nuclear science, molecular biology, ultrasonic's and environmental science reveal the dangerous trends. Chernobyl was perhaps the greatest scentfic calamity of this century. Bhopal gases, Tsunami, Gujarat Earth quake tragedy are other examples. Over the past four decades molecular biology has emerged as one of the most promising branches of science. The manipulation of the inherited genetic blue print is a technique in ts infancy. Sustained efforts are being made to develop gene therapy for diseases such as hung cancer. But in another kind of development biotechnologists are manipulating the biological dock set by nature in many of its creatures. Scientists are developing genetically engineered crop plants that are resistant to insects and fungi.

The centuries - old debate between two contradictory doctninesthose of the hawk and the dove - continues into our own time. The hawks strive for possessions, pleasure and power. They believe that it does not matter if others suffer from thelr achieving aims. The doves strive to understand the meaning and purpose of life. They believe in the principle "live and let live". 

Many earlier avihzations such as the Babylonian, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman have witnessed the dance of destruction. In the dvilzatons the old moral values were lost. The hawks dominated the doves. So the dvilization dechned and fell. 

Today we are in a similar critical period. We read in news papers of scientists who suppress or distort facts to obtain grants or fame, of doctors ah misdiagnose and Operate wrongly on pabents, of industnalists who are responsible for releasing large quantties of greenhouse gases mto the atmosphere without thinlong of its implications, of hawks who establish those projects in the Third World’ and they are risky in the ‘First World’. Recent examples from the subjects of nuclear science, molecular biology, ultrasonic's and environmental science reveal the dangerous trends. 

Chernobyl was perhaps the greatest scentfic calamity of this century. Bhopal gases, Tsunami, Gujarat Earth quake tragedy are other examples. Over the past four decades molecular biology has emerged as one of the most promising branches of science. The manipulation of the inherited genetic blue print is a technique in ts infancy. Sustained efforts are being made to develop gene therapy for diseases such as hung cancer. But in another kind of development biotechnologists are manipulating the biological dock set by nature in many of its creatures. Scientists are developing genetically engineered crop plants that are resistant to insects and fungi.