Wirt Atmar writes:

>He -- and others -- expect that
>biotechnology is going to generate $1000 trillion dollars worth of products
>and services in the next 50 years.

This isn't really that remarkable. The GNP of the United States is about
$12 trillion, if memory serves, and the world product is about $50
trillion. Accounting for inflation, the world product over the next 50
years will be about $7500 trillion, so the fraction spent on health care
and related products (bioengineered foods, etc.) will remain about the
same.

>Evolutionary biology is at the core of this revolution. It always has been.
>Thirty years ago, Theodosius Dobzhansky said (for reasons completely
>different than an evolution/creation debate), "Nothing in biology makes sense
>in the light of evolution".

I think what he said was "Nothing in biology makes sense *except* in the
light of evolution."

-- Bruce


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