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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Posted on: January 12, 2007 10:17 AM, by David Ng
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And at the early dawn of the seventh day, just before He rested, God did a lot of pretty complicated things at super duper God speed. This was so that people would think the whole Creation thing probably took a lot longer than seven days.
This piece was fun to write and is more or less a sequel to a previous piece on stem cells. Hmmm... I wonder what topic might be entertained to make this a trilogy.
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Comments
Suppose, in a less scientifically inspired moment, "it's a lucky thing for Outback Steakhouse's Bloomin' Onion that the following passages aren't in the bible" might close the triad.
But if you want to stay science, then perchance "it's a lucky thing for genetically modified tomato-fish that the following passages aren't in the bible" could do it.
Posted by: BRC | January 12, 2007 2:52 PM
This was an amazingly funny and elegant piece of writing.
I laughed a lot not only because of humorous style of writer
but because of his beautiful mind about Darwinian way of thinking.
Posted by: hamid | January 17, 2007 1:09 AM