[asa] A Irrefutably Intelligently Designed Genome

From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 12:17:05 EDT

See here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=longest-piece-of-dna-yet

And note this: "The scientists disabled the gene that gave the bug power to
infect human cells, and they added a few "watermarks," short strips of
signature genetic code that identify the product as man-made."

Let's say civilization as we know it collapses, this bug escapes into the
wild and continues to evolve, and scientists working in a rebuilt society in
the far future reconstruct the evolved bug's genetic history. Would they be
able to conclude that it was originally designed?

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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