tricky stuff, DNA

I have been ploughing through Genes vii, the standard undergraduate text on modern genetics. For the first time in my life, I understand the appeal of Michael Behe’s arguments: everything in biology is unbelievably complicated when you look at it up close.

Behe derives from this the idea that God must be responsible. I just doubt that anything as complicated as a worm, let alone as complicated as I am, actually exists.

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So the mike was live!

this is an experiment in using Movable type. I hope that it will turn into something both fun and useful. For the moment there’s not much else to record of the day, except that I got to thinking how long a gene might be (measured in

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