In ‘God, evil, and occasionalism’ Matthew Shea and C.P. Ragland appeal to the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing to argue against Alvin Plantinga that occasionalism is morally worse than conservationism. In this article I critically examine their argument and conclude that it fails because it contains an equivocation or is unwarranted. I also offer a case against their position by, first, arguing that on none of three prominent accounts of doing and allowing God merely allows suffering.

Second, I develop the ‘Epistemological-Equivalence Argument’ in order to show that even if we grant such a distinction for God's acts, they would be morally on a par.

Almost thirty years after its initial use in the Brundtland Report, the concept of “sustainability” has become ubiquitous within business, with virtually every company division across a broad range of industries developing “sustainable” models and practices. While the original Brundtland idea of sustainable development has the potential to do much good in guiding business practice, this potential is being undermined by the systematic misuse, misunderstanding, and flawed application of the concept in many business settings. Under the guise of sustainability, business is being asked to do both less than and more than what should be required by a commitment to sustainable development. As a result, serious ethical and practical questions go unanswered, questions that must be addressed before sustainability can become a meaningful business strategy. This address situates sustainable business within its original context of sustainable development and argues against attempts to convert sustainability either into a narrow concept of risk management or into a broad concept of social responsibility. It then lays out a sustainability research agenda that helps us understand how to create businesses that can meet present and future needs without jeopardizing future generations via the destruction of the biosphere.

La expansión actual de los criterios conservacionistas han promovido la utilización de las modernas metodologías que brinda la genética molecular para la caracterización de las razas, aunque la caracterización genética clásica basada en marcadores bioquímicos e inmunogenéticos se ha aplicado durante muchos años sobre todo en rumiantes y equinos en pruebas de identidad y control de filiación. El estudio del polimorfismo de los microsatélites del ADN han ofrecido muy buenos resultados, aunque también se ha trabajado con éxito en la investigación del ADN mitocondrial y de fragmentos de ADN amplificados aleatoriamente. En España estos métodos han sido utilizados en las especies bovina, ovina, caprina, porcina, equina y canina.

De cualquier forma, es importante considerar que la obtención de perfiles genéticos poblacionales para los caracteres morfológicos y productivos, es obligada en una aplicación práctica de los resultados obtenidos con los marcadores genéticos. En el presente trabajo se describen las principales iniciativas desarrolladas en los aspectos mencionados, ubicando los equipos españoles especializados.