[Grig]

Grammar, language, intelligence, design?

[Pride in the USA]

A code is a code, even the most rudimentary ones. It takes intelligence to create a code, period.

[From many - one.]

No, chemistry.

To oversimplify: KOH, NaOH (potassium hydroxide, sodium hydoxide) have similar properties.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Grammar, language, intelligence, design?

"The grammar rules Stephanopoulos developed are about what 2-year-olds learn on their own by listening to adults speak, he said."

Or kind of like it just evolved and required no special tinkering or teaching.

Are you an IDer so intent upon seeing something there that you a). didn't read the story you posted or b.) are completely misinterpreting an analogy to fit your preconceived notions?

Or maybe I am just reading into your brief comment to much.

[claudiustg]

This seems it would work not.

[Hawthorn]

Since the principal researcher is at MIT, maybe he could enlist MIT's most famous grammarian, Noam Chomsky, in the work -- thereby to attract support from Hugo Chavez!

[mikrofon]

Scientists use grammar to fight nasty bacteria (Intellligent Design?)

Apparently, spelling suffers in the process...

[theBuckwheat]

If, as this article implies, DNA is a run-time interpreted language like javascript or basic, that raises the order of complexity of genetics by several orders of magnitude.

It is one thing to propose a static genetic map, because such a thing could (at least we are told) occur in nature by accident or random chance. Despite odds that are so great that we could easily insure against this "accident" by purchasing PowerBall tickets, it turns out that not only must the spelling of each "word" in the DNA be perfect, but that each "word" must be used in the correct order in a strict grammar.

If you take the amount of time in the universe, times the number of atoms, it still exceeds the odds of such a thing happening by random accident by quite a large amount. In short, there is not enough time in the universe for this to be an accident.

[Andonius_99]

I are wonder if this work won't...there, my cold's gone!!!

[Xenalyte]

And everyone thought I was just being nitpicky as hell. I'm saving lives here, people! ;)

[doc30]

It's just organic chemistry. The science of chemistry is simply learning and exploiting the 'grammar rules' of molecules in order to predict their properties, learn how they change and how they react react. Similar chemicals in similar environments will behave in similar ways. It's all nature. All chemistry obeys relatively simple rules.

[JoeFromSidney]

In man's war with microbes, bacteria keep mutating to develop resistance to nature-derived drugs.

Is this really true? Do they actually mutate? Or is it the case that the antibiotic simply wipes out those bacteria that don't have resistance to it, leaving only those that have resistance to multiply? Are we simply doing with bacteria what we do with domesticated plants and animals, selecting for breeding those that have the most of the characteristics we want (except with the bacteria, we are selecting for the characteristics we don't want?