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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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To: js1138
Bioengineering is not really relevant to the argument, although it brings up some interesting questions.

:-} It may not be relevant to you, it certainly is to me. It is evident that 21st Century man can Intelligently Design bio products.

Bioengineering mostly shuffles known traits around and between species.

Thus changing the allele frequency from one generation of bananas to the next.

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.

You can't be serious here js. Or are you suggesting that the mechanism for evolution does not include random mutations that are selecetd? These mutations are directed, ie: ID.

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.

Way past my blue collar.

259 posted on 01/26/2005 10:26:08 AM PST by jwalsh07
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