May 17/00 / Reuters/PA News
LONDON - Britain's Prince Charles on Wednesday will, according to these
stories, warn that the world faces environmental disaster unless it starts
accepting that tampering with nature is an affront to God.
The stories note that the heir-to-the-throne has already lambasted
genetically
modified foods but he will use a lecture broadcast on BBC radio
to make a wider attack on some methods employed by modern
science.
Charles was quoted as saying, "We need to rediscover a reverence for the
natural world, irrespective of its usefulness to ourselves, to become more
aware of the relationship between God, man and creation. If literally
nothing is held sacred anymore, what is there to prevent us treating our
entire world as some 'great laboratory of life' with potentially disastrous
long-term
consequences? Only by rediscovering the essential unity and order of the
living and spiritual world and by bridging the gap between
cynical secularism and the timelessness of traditional religion
will we avoid the disintegration of our environment."
The stories add that some British newspapers gave front-page coverage on
Wednesday to advance extracts of his lecture.
The Guardian said Charles would be taking swipes at
biotechnology, the Labour government's modernising zeal and
economic globalisation.
But the prince would be careful to build bridges between
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