Tag: J. Craig Venter
On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell
Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life.
On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell
Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life.
Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis
The origin of biological information is a mystery not so much highlighted by a comparison with software as downplayed by it.
Craig Venter in Seattle: “Life Is a DNA Software System”
Evolutionary biologists would assume that even a synthetic chromosome wasn’t designed if you don’t include a watermark evidencing its non-natural origin.
Craig Venter’s Typo Shows Poor Design is Still Design
Forbes.com is reporting that Craig Venter’s “synthetic” bacterial chromosome contains a “genetic typo.” Molecular biology has ascribed a letter to each amino acid. Venter and his team imported DNA sequences into the chromosome–called watermarks–that coded for amino acids which ‘spelled out’ sentences in the chromosome. But they got one sentence wrong. As the article reports: The synthetic DNA also included a quote from physicist Richard Feynman, “What I cannot build, I cannot understand.” That prompted a note from Caltech, the school where Feyman taught for decades. They sent Venter a photo of the blackboard on which Feynman composed the quote -and it showed that he actually wrote, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” “We agreed what was on Read More ›