[tallhappy]

I thought it was quite good. And I don't consider myself ignorant in this area.

What'd you think was the best part?

[DanDenDar]

I felt Derbyshire captured the ferment of activity in bioinformatics exactly. Gilder made the ridiculous assertion that biologists were ignorant of information theory. Derbyshire points out that in fact there is so much going on in bioinformatics that biologists are too busy to navel-gaze, the way physicists are prone to do.

Neither of them is fully biologically literate. What do they mean by 'modelling protein synthesis'? But Derbyshire is far more literate than Gilder, who committed a dozen solecisms in his silly article.

Not a bad piece by a layman, at all. To anyone who has argued with creationists for any lenght of time, his 'whack-a-mole' analogy is exactly right.