{"id":1348,"date":"2008-02-04T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/04\/take-the-intelligent-design-ch\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:00:58","slug":"take-the-intelligent-design-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/take-the-intelligent-design-ch\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Intelligent Design Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Determining where a genome has been produced or altered by an intelligent designer is a matter of some importance. Consider the claims that the HIV virus was engineered as a biowarfare weapon, or the concern that virulence genes from other organisms could be inserted into viruses and bacteria to &#8220;weaponise&#8221; them. For example the engineered mouse pox virus that turned lethal (Nature. 2001 May 17;411(6835):232-5 see also Nat Genet. 2001 Nov;29(3):253-6) and limits on the sequencing of the 1918 strain of the flu to stop flu from being weaponised (Fed Regist. 2005 Oct 20;70(202):61047-9,). A method that could reliably detect the action of human intelligent design in the genomes of microorganisms would be of significant advantage.Thus we issue the &#8220;Intelligent Design Challenge&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/take-the-intell.html\">Get the details at Panda&#8217;s Thumb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining where a genome has been produced or altered by an intelligent designer is a matter of some importance. Consider the claims that the HIV virus was engineered as a biowarfare weapon, or the concern that virulence genes from other organisms could be inserted into viruses and bacteria to &#8220;weaponise&#8221; them. For example the engineered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/take-the-intelligent-design-ch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take the Intelligent Design Challenge!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}