Dr. Stephen Meyer

10,000 lines of code to help us simulate and not remember from civics class how a bill becomes a law.

It's how a gene becomes a protein, how the information in the gene directs the protein synthesis.

And one day he walks into my office and he throws a book down on my table.

He's a big tall guy, about 6'5".

He's got shock of wild hair, genius type programmer.

And he says, I get an eerie feeling that someone figured this out before us.

And he points at the book.

And the book is called Design Patterns.

And it's a standard manual for computer programmers for writing code for what are called computer design patterns.

And a computer design pattern, he explained to me, is an established method of programming.

of processing digital information, of storing or processing digital information.

And he said, he said, I'm learning the gene expression system.

I'm recognizing all these established design patterns from computer science.

We have automated algorithms

error correction, right?

We call it spell check.

There's automated error correction in the transmission of genetic information.

If something goes wrong and you get the wrong amino acid in the wrong place, there's a little, there's a big protein that comes along, excises it and puts the right one in place.

He says, we have hierarchical filing.

We've got within the genome, you've got files within folders and folders within super folders.