CRISPR Babies and the Genetic Code
A software developer friend brought this article in The Atlantic to my attention: The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day And he writes: I find it amusing that they keep referring to this kind of thing as “editing”. They’re going to need to figure out if they’re going to keep using “editing” as the concept they want to convey and as such provide an opening for ID proponents to make the connection to the semiotic nature of genetic code (and thereby creating testimony against interest) or begin utilizing a different concept to bulwark their materialist approach. Even the notion of DNA being “code” is going to require alteration. Granted, DNA is an amazingly efficient data storage mechanism, but again Read More ›