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To: bigLusr
All that being said... No, I don't think ID should be taught in schools. I had this whole long paragraph... but I'll just leave it at that.

So bioengineering should be removed from all curriculum?

207 posted on 01/26/2005 9:39:59 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
So bioengineering should be removed from all curriculum?

Sorry. You lost me. Why would I believe that bioengineering should be removed from all curriculum?

211 posted on 01/26/2005 9:46:06 AM PST by bigLusr (Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur)
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To: jwalsh07
So bioengineering should be removed from all curriculum?

Bioengineering is not really relevant to the argument, although it brings up some interesting questions.

Bioengineering mostly shuffles known traits around and between species. It doesn't generally create new traits, and if it did, they would not be known in advance. This kind of engineering would be indistinguishable in principle from natural variation and selection.

If you want to suggest that emergent traits, genuinely new properties, can be predicted, then ID needs to demonstrate this ability. It would make a good research project.

246 posted on 01/26/2005 10:14:26 AM PST by js1138
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