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Researchers today may alter, copy, and paste DNA with increasing ease, but they still struggle when it comes to actually composing DNA that does anything useful
by username3 14y ago
Researchers today may alter, copy, and paste DNA with increasing ease, but they still struggle when it comes to actually composing DNA that does anything useful. They are still editing nature's code and learning from it. It turns out that for now, nature is still the best programmer.
Sounds like Intelligent Design.
- Lambdanaut 14y agoI tend to see the evolutionary process as a sort of pseudo intelligence, constantly striving to make the best organism for the environment it's in.
- saraid216 14y agoNo, intelligent design is when they take a metaphor like the one above and presume it's descriptive. Saying that your sky blue eyes are actually pieces of the sky, for instance.