Abstract
Language adopted byscientific media to refer the HumanGenome Project (HGP) and the newgenetics had used terms like “Book of life”, “Holly Graal of Biology”, and “Language of God”. These expressions were used to characterize the importance and the dimension of this Project (HGP). The use of religious metaphors is not restrict to scientific media, but is also seen in political and scientists speech in the context of the HGP. In this paper, I intend to show some terms cited about the HGP that are useful to think the relationship between scienceand religion, and think about the presenceof metaphors in scientific discourse.
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