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Nothing in this image looks engineered. In fact, this is an illustration of a comparatively messy virus particle. Other viruses look a lot more regular and “artificial”. Check out the pictures (including actual SEM pictures) on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus. And if that doesn’t convince you, here’s what bacteriophages look like: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacteriophage.jpg — Clearly nanobots, right?

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>In fact, this is an illustration of a comparatively messy virus particle. Other viruses look a lot more regular and “artificial”.

Notwithstanding the main point you are making, why do you expect an engineered virus to look LESS messy? I would expect it to be a kludged-together frankenstein of different parts.

I’m assuming that the comment I was replying to was using the perceived “tidiness” of the picture as the sole evidence for their claim that it looks engineered. What else could they mean? — Of course you’re right that an engineered virion wouldn’t necessarily look tidier than a natural one. My comment wanted to point out that the perceived tidiness isn’t evidence of engineering.

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