EvC Forum: Designed Virus

MIT Builds Batteries with Viruses
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
April 7, 2006, 12:49 PM

By manipulating a few genes within the virus, researchers were able to get the organism to grow and then assemble itself into a functional electronic device. They hope to be able to build a battery that could be as small as a grain of rice.

In the process created by MIT researchers, the viruses were engineered to create the anode by collecting cobalt oxide and gold. Since these viruses have a negative charge, they are then layered between oppositely charged synthetic polymers to create thin sheets.

Batteries made with this process could store two to three times the energy of traditional batteries that size, meaning a longer-lasting charge. While the researchers did not specify any early applications of the technology, it would likely first appear in Defense Department work. The project was funded by the Army Research Office, MIT said.

The group's work is expected to appear in this week's issue of Science.

Thus the viruses do something new and novel as a result of intelligent design - we know this because it was done by intelligent design humans.

The point is that viruses are an easy proven means to implement designed elements into organic systems, so why don't we see design improvements being delivered by various viruses?

In fact every mechanism that transmits a disease - whether mosquitos or kinky sexual behavior - is a possible means to deliver new design information, but the evidence is that all such "information" that is so delivered corrupts or harms the recipient and the only beneficial result is for the recipient to become immune to further delivery ... if it survives. If this is design for a purpose, it is a curious, if not a silly¹, purpose.

So, how does "Intelligent Design" explain all the bad design carried by viruses and other {vector\delivery} systems?

Enjoy.

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¹ The pictures are back, thanks.

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