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“The Spurious Foundations of Genetic Engineering”

September 13, 2005 William DembskiComment(1)

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Here’s an old paper, but one well worth looking at if you haven’t seen it already: “The Spurious Foundations of Genetic Engineering” by Barry Commoner. It goes without saying that the “spurious foundations” here are the same as those for neo-Darwinism.

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JaredL says:

September 14, 2005 at 2:56 pm

So… which came first, the protein or the gene that coded for it?

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