Sacred books, like The Bible, try to answer life's ultimate questions (
such as: why is there so much
suffering and why does so much of it seem
needless?).
The closing statement of the editorial is this: «We, and the thousands of other scientists who have signed the statement of protest, stand together in staunch opposition to the violent destruction of required tests on valuable advances
such as Golden Rice that have the potential to save millions of impoverished fellow humans from
needless suffering and death.»