It has been more years than I care to remember since I was in a biology lab, but I don’t recall any need for evolution to enter into research re medical advances.
You’ll pardon me if I lack the faith necessary to believe that the immeasurable complexity of life on this planet could arise through random mutations, regardless of what “science” asserts.
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How much research have you actually done? Have you ever, for example, compared the genetics of the influenza virus across both time and distance to see how the virus is changing? Of course comprehension of evolutionary theory is critical to medical advances--if no one understood evolution, how would we explain the constant changing of the influenza virus? Without understanding why and how the virus evolves, how would we try to devise a new vaccine for it every year? In my original toxicology studies, I tried to understand how a particular toxin is deadly, in part by looking at evolutionary relationships between various animals. I can't imagine how someone who wants to reject the theory of evolution would even attempt to conduct research. The process of evolution is constant and ubiquitous; understanding the theory is essential, since it is central to the study of life sciences.
You’ll pardon me if I lack the faith necessary to believe that the immeasurable complexity of life on this planet could arise through random mutations, regardless of what “science†asserts.
Mutations are random, but they follow immutable physical rules. Just as you get a random number every time you throw a cubical die, but you can always predict that the number is between 1 and 6, mutations are always random but fall within predictable outcomes. DNA can mutate by changing a base, adding one or more bases, or losing one or more bases. There are no other possibilities for mutation. Every organism has a few mutations that do not exist in its parents, and the accumulation of those mutations over generations causes species to change. If a group of animals from the same species becomes split, each of the new groups will continue to change (i.e. evolve) over time. Eventually, over many generations, the two groups will become different enough to be considered different species.