Posted on 10/13/2005 8:46:39 PM PDT by HAL9000
Let's wait. Too many threads are active just now.
No Evolution Theology is not at all required for an understanding of any of the above. The How and Why is pure biology and/or organic chemistry enhanced by technology innovations that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with ET. No the study of pathogenic response instead owes everything to Mendel's genetics and nothing to ET.
No antibiotics or vaccines were developed through the understanding of Evolution Theology.
Correct, especially since Evolution is not Theology, as you well know. I suggest you read some of the recent threads concerning the 1918 flu epidemic and its influenza strain and the new concerns about the Bird Flu and the threads that anti influenza drugs are losing effectiveness due to the evolution of influenza strains. Then you might just see how evolution affects vaccine manufacture. Maybe, just maybe a few facts will help you from making false blanket statements based on ignorance.
And the use of pre-1859 antibiotics.
Half Stinkweed and half Sigmund the Sea Monster.
For all those nasty bugs from before 1859 that didn't feel it necessary to evolve.
I know about the 1918 influenza. The virus doesn't evolve at all. We just develop vaccines for different strains of the same virus. A virus does not evolve into anything else at all. It doesn't aquire any new capabilities beyond that which it does not already have. While the possible permutations of some virii are quite great they are in fact FINITE. Evolution Theology is the mistaken belief that life evolves into another form of life.
Godzilla?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek would love it.
Exactly what do you mean by "strain"?
The theory of Evolution predicts that organisms will recombine and produce new "strains" "species" with new characteristics. The changes in influenza are from genetic recombination between strains. Where do you think the new strains come from? Is HIV a different "species" from the chimp immunodeficiency virus? (if there is such a thing as species with viruses).
Are they just hiding under a rock and jump out periodically and say Boo?
These changes lead to a change in vaccine production. The TOE helps researchers predict what new changes can be expected. The TOE is the big tent under which all Biology operates. You can hand wave it away but there's practically no field of Biology and related disciplines that are not covered.
Genetic recombination is not evolution theology, it is smple genetic theory (ala Mendel). Evolution theology is belief in random mutation inserts new information from nothing (or monkey totem diety). Mutation causes information lossage.
The same virus with different genetic sequences turned on or turned off.
Could you give a physical description of how the same virus can have genetic sequences turned on or off?
Sure some influenza virii have red hair, long legs, and enormous tits. Other influenza virii have blond hair, hairy legs, and big noses. Those are metaphors for characteristics of influenza virii. The red haired virii's blond sequence is recombinatively recessive. There are FINITE recombinative possibilities. At no point does an influenza virus suddenly sprout wings or eyeballs or tails and become an aids virus or paramecium. It is what it is and thats all that it is just as God created it to be.
How does a virus carry ressive traits, and how does it engage in recombination?
Viral sexual habits are notoriously deviant. Some of them unwind themselves and roll around in the protein cleavage of a cell, often touching themselves repeatedly.
As I understand your response, changes in viral genomes are not evolution because you've held you breath till you turned blue.
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