Unlikely unless they have access to the names of the researchers
involved, use the latin alphabet and understand the encoding used.
It's like encoding decoded messages. But this has little relevance to
the ID concept as proposed by ID proponents who are not interested in
identifying design but rather focus on 'rarefied design'.
VENTERINSTITVTE
CRAIGVENTER
HAMSMITH
CINDIANDCLYDE
GLASSANDCLYDE
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:17 AM, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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