Scientists and their Poetic language

Whilst reading an article by a Physicist where he considers two quotes by scientists, I remembered a quote I came across when reading the book Edge of Evolution (by Dr. Michael Behe). The quote was attributed to Max Perutz. Apparently, it was his first reaction when finally myoglobin’s structure was worked out. It was the first time a protein’s structure has been worked out. What he said made me laugh:

“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?”

LOL! Ultimate truth, eh? This is the problem with some scientists trying to be waxing. It doesn’t suit them well. They tend to blurt out some nonsense. I mean does this guy really think finding the 3D structure of a protein is the Ultimate Truth?

Behe quoted this, and responded that proteins are made to carry out a function, they are not made to look pretty. But check out this picture:

Laminin: A view from a “scientist to be”….

I heard about this molecule called Laminin that apparently looks like a Cross. In this age of stuff appearing in tortillas and what have you, I decided to check it out. Thinking about it, I remembered one lecturer in introducing histology mentioning about this Laminin molecule in connection to molecules in the extracellular matrix. He did not elaborate on the structure of this molecule.

So I went to Google. The first item on the search takes me to a video of Louie Giglio wowing a crowd showing a “scientific diagram” of this Laminin. Needless to say that his presentation was pretty cool (though overwrought with much emotion), I wasn’t too impressed by all the skeptics/atheists flaming in the comments section of the video. It was almost like the haters had a skewed perception of what exactly is being claimed here. In fact there was a good clarification by the uploader of another one of the video