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Natural selection builds bacteria that build nanowires — yeah, right

July 14, 2006 Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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And while we’re at it, let’s not forget that natural selection also built the chariot, toaster oven, and space shuttle. Go here for another case of nanodesign, unanticipated but readily rationalized by evolutionary theory: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/0321217&from=rss.

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3 Responses to Natural selection builds bacteria that build nanowires — yeah, right

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    DaveScotJuly 14, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    Presumably, once we can program bacteria like little robots, they can build just about anything physically possible with atomic precision given raw materials, energy, and a non-toxic environment.

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    DaveScotJuly 14, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    And also given the proper instructions of course. We have an old saying in the machine programming business: It did exactly what I told it to do, just not what I wanted it to do.

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    glennjJuly 15, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    “As one researcher said, ‘Earth appears to be hard-wired.’”
    But, of course, it is only the appearance of it.

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