Author: Lori Jia
2009 may be the year in which synthetic biology finally goes mainstream.
There have been plenty of articles about synthetic biology–reprogramming cells by inserting new genes and tweaking the connections between their own genes–over the past few years. (Here is one of mine.) But apparently most people are not paying attention. In a recent poll, most Americans said they had no clue what synthetic biology is.
I’m in Boston at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative Biology. Monday at 1 pm I’ll be participating in the celebration of the start of the Year of Science. Here are the details.
Originally published January 5, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
Here’s the third of Ken Miller’s three guest posts on blood clotting, evolution, and intelligent design. (In case you missed them, here are the first and second posts.)
If you’ve had the patience to follow Part 1 and Part 2 of my replies to Casey Luskin’s postings on the blood-clotting cascade, you might be wondering why he’s gone to such trouble to beat a horse (Kitzmiller v. Dover) that left the barn more than three years ago (when that decision was filed). Quite frankly, I wondered a bit about that, too.
Continue reading “Ken Miller’s Final Guest Post: Looking Forward”
As promised, here’s Ken Miller’s second post on intelligent design, following on yesterday’s introduction. [And here’s the third and final post.]
In Part 1, I showed that Casey Luskin’s charges with respect to my testimony in Kitzmiller v. Dover were completely false. Michael Behe did indeed argue, throughout his 1996 book, Darwin’s Black Box [DBB], that the “entire blood-clotting system” was “irreducibly complex,” and I cited examples from that book to prove it. Therefore, the existence of a living organism missing so much as a single part of that system was indeed a falsification of ID’s blood-clotting argument.
Well, it’s 2009, and my first blog post over at the Year of Science web site is up. I explain why I think this is such a cool image.
Originally published January 2, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.