[OldNavyVet]

Betty Boop … you wrote: “You may have heard about the Human Genome Project. Evidently, it crashed and burned. But folks don't want to talk about that.... “

To the contrary, A simple Google search shows that the Human Genome Project is going strong …

Ref: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACAW_enUS351US351&q=Human+Genome+Project

[betty boop]

A simple Google search shows that the Human Genome Project is going strong …

I didn't say the HGP has been suspended, OldNavyVet. Of course the research continues.

What I was referencing with my remark about "crash and burn" was simply that the expectations for the Project were so high, that many researchers were disappointed with the results achieved at the time they were publicly announced.

IOW, they had confidence that their methods would be highly fruitful, but it seems their results did not meet expectations. Of course they're going to keep trying to explicate the genome! What I wonder is whether any researcher is explicitly aware of the possibility that the genome may ultimately be a mathematical, not a material object....

That's my speculation anyway.... FWIW

Thank you for writing, OldNavyVet!