ACS Nano,
Apollo moon landings,
bacteria,
bacteriophages,
buckyballs,
capsid,
cell machinery,
cell membrane,
COVID-19,
crystals,
DNA,
Elizabeth Pennisi,
icosahedron,
ID The Future,
Intelligent Design,
Iqbal Pittalwala,
lipid bilayer,
Medicine,
Michael Behe,
molecular motor,
nano-vehicles,
polyhedron,
protein,
Purdue University,
RNA,
Roya Zandi,
SARS-CoV-2,
Science (journal),
snowflakes,
T4 virus,
U.C. Riverside,
U.C. San Diego,
vaccine,
viral genome,
viruses
The COVID-19 virus is on a rampage in the world, killing thousands in the U.S. so far, shutting down whole countries’ economies, and possibly altering aspects of modern life for the future, after the virus has waned. What the complete impact will be is of course unknowable. In the meantime, though, questions arise about this and other, related sub-microscopic entities. Viruses seem so evil. What is their place in life? And like other aspects of nature, do they give evidence of intelligent design? Certainly, in a context of global anxiety, this is a subject that needs to be approached with sensitivity and humility. It isn’t the purpose of this article to adequately address great philosophical questions. That can wait for another occasion. But before such questions can even be considered,…