[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.

;-)

[VadeRetro]

Speaking of that kind of thing: here's much ado about a thing that in some people's worlds does not happen. A web page on mutations, repair mechanisms, etc.

I like the part where one kind of recurring thing that doesn't happen damages a repair mechanism for that thing that doesn't happen and the organism which doesn't have that mechanism rapidly and reliably gets lots more of that thing that doesn't happen.