Posted on 04/13/2009 9:14:12 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Viral Batteries: A Case for Evolution?
by Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Researchers at MIT have invented a greener battery with the help of viruses. Three years ago, they engineered a virus that coats itself with material that serves as an anode, a structure within a battery that attracts positive ions. They have now engineered a virus (bacteriophage) that serves as a cathode, which indirectly links to the anode to help make the battery functional. The result is a battery with little impact on the environment.
National Public Radio (NPR) ran a report on its Morning Edition that compared the development of this battery with the processes of evolution, stating that if the lead researcher didn't like any properties of the electrode, she just tweaked the DNA of the virus that was making it.1 But does this research actually portray an evolutionary process?...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
Sure. But your question is rather ridiculous. Did you honestly believe in 1979 that all scientific discoveries would have been made by 2009?
You failed.
You are taken at face value an ICR article that's trying to decieve you.
For where the evolution part is relevant
Belcher (and Chiang) uses a method sometimes called "directed evolution," which allows her to quickly modify viruses to work with a range of materials.
In this case, directed evolution begins with a small vial that Chiang pulls from a refrigerator. Inside is a clear fluid that contains a billion viruses; they are nearly identical, but each has a subtle genetic variation introduced by the researchers. The variations are, in part, fortuitous: the researchers add a randomly generated sequence of DNA to each virus. But the added DNA, which codes for a short strand of amino acids called a peptide, is inserted into the gene for a select protein.
Since there are so many variations among the viruses in the vial, some of them should randomly have peptides that bind to a useful inorganic material. The researchers simply pour the contents of the vial onto a target material, such as a small square of gold, and give the viruses a chance to bind. Then they wash the material. After a few repetitions, only the viruses that happen to bind strongly remain. The process allows the researchers to quickly engineer viruses to bind to a particular material, even if they don't know ahead of time what sequence of amino acids is likely to work.
Funny how the ICR deciced to comment on a science article by a reporter who probably flunked JR high school biology instead of using more detailed technical reports.
Had I known, I never would've given you the test.
Your “test” is a neon-lit billboard advertising your own ignorance.
Look who’s talkin’, y’all.
a little bit...
I took a sourced comment from NPR at face value. Who's trying to deceive whom?
Smokey Mountains = Appalachia
Had I known, I never would’ve given you the test.
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I thought that we libtard evolutionists were the elitists. Guess I was wrong.
Wonder if there are more creationists, id’ers or believers in evolution in Appalachia. Since you believe that folks in Appalachia are stupid, you would expect them to ‘evolutionists’, wouldn’t you?
I’d guess the opposite is true.
That's a start! Let the hgealing begin!
That's a start! Let the hgealing begin!
opps! Typo:
“hgealing”
I meant ghealign.
do you have andre the giant fingers? no one can have that many spelling errors and then correct a spelling error with a spelling error.
Thanks for the ping!
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You just had to go there, didn’t you?
I just love it when you can't see the work the Designer had in evolution, preferring to close your eyes to the miracles of life.
I look at nature every day and marvel at the miraculous work of the Designer. What are you talking about?
Apparently you either did not read my post, you are deliberately distorting my post or you agree that the Designer used evolution to bring the views you observe every day.
I see you are a visitor to the same three or four creationist websites that spew these false descriptions of evolution.
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