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To: adorno
Maybe you didn't notice the marks around the work ‘expert’ noting that I was using the phrase euphemistically.

They are “experts” in that bacteria routinely gain and rid themselves of foreign DNA. It is a trait, a characteristic, an intrinsic property.

Yes, natural selection.

If 10% of the bacterial population has the human DNA and it is advantageous there will eventually be 11% of the bacterial population that will have that trait.

It is a mathematical inevitability.

If it is disadvantageous then eventually only 9% of the population will have that trait.

That is why a fantastical mechanism whereby the immune system would add DNA to a bacteria would be idiotic, because the more detrimental the trait it passed on - the quicker it would be selected against and eliminated from the population.

The immune system is in the business of identifying foreign 3D structures and KILLING THEM, not messing with their DNA in the hopes that it will make them act nicer.

I mean what sense does that make? But I sense where you are coming from, and it doesn't seem so strange now that you prefer fantastical illogical magical mechanisms to actual science.

49 posted on 02/14/2011 9:00:45 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream
I see where you like to call those that have a disagreement with you "idiots". Resorting to insults is the ultimate refuge of those that can't even stand to be challenged.

I mean what sense does that make? But I sense where you are coming from, and it doesn't seem so strange now that you prefer fantastical illogical magical mechanisms to actual science.

I mentioned "smart design" as opposed to your "natural selection". What proof do you have that says that it can't be "intelligent design" rather than "natural selection" for the way that the human defense mechanism works?

I myself came from the camp that believed that "natural selection" was the true answer to how life evolved and how "magical" it was in the "progression" of all species, from the simple to the highly complex. But, as I lived longer and became wiser and learned a lot more about how "inconceivable" it was to just believe that "natural forces" made the most complex of species, including humans.

The answers are not there yet to how life "evolved" and not even on how the human defense mechanism works. That research is itself evolving.

YOu don't have the answers and neither do the actual researches, at least, not yet.
50 posted on 02/15/2011 5:54:15 AM PST by adorno
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