Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (JLT @ May 21 2010,13:07) | | Quote (JohnW @ May 21 2010,17:59) | | Quote (JLT @ May 21 2010,01:29) | BA77 even proclaims that humans are as likely as a random search to create a working protein from scratch.
BA77:
| Quote | | The search space for them [Craig Venter et al.] to find even a single novel gene, or protein, that would do anything at all, much less one that would accomplish a specific task they wanted, is beyond the 1 in 10^150 universal probability bound of Dr. Dembski. Thus they will never ever write a synthetic genome that they have truly created themselves from scratch, they will forever be “borrowing” already written material. |
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Batshit's preceding paragraph is interesting:
| Quote | | if you can call plagiarizing a already existing genome and very selectively editing the preexisting information of that genome within very tight constraints, then I guess it may fairly be said that yes they “wrote” the genome themselves. |
Plagiarizing? That's a dangerous word to be tossing around on UD, especially in the context of the inner life of the cell.
Perhaps batshit thinks Venter's going to be sued by a bacterium. |
It's batshit. He probably believes that Venter will be sued by God. |
Is Venter Franciscan? He could claim friar use.
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