Tag: Systems Biology
End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?
A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat.
Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More
Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden.
Eric Bapteste on External Genetic Change In “Age-Distorters”
Species are surrounded by other species (often sharing the same body), and therefore may interfere with one another’s fitness.
New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum
This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years.
What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa
If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of “Junk DNA” might have been avoided.
