[VadeRetro]

I forgot to mention this part:

The complete nucleotide sequence of strain K12 is known. It contains 4,639,221 base pairs corresponding to 4,288 genes.

That's the total size of the founder Ur-cell that has in it already somewhere recessive genes coding for every antibiotic resistance and every food-metabolization adaptation which will ever be needed. K12 is a strain of Southack's "diploid" E. coli.

[js1138]

On another thread I asked Alamo-girl if ID had any research proposals to find the secret to predicting the effects of mutations or changes. It seems to me that if you are designing something you need to know how your materials work.

You would need a formula or model that predicts how any allele will express itself, how it will be affected by the totality of the genome, and most of all, how reproductive success will be affected, given the physical environment and the ecosystem.

That would make ID a science.

;-)