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Evolution Is in the Air
The New York Times ^ | November 6, 2005 | OLIVIA JUDSON

Posted on 11/06/2005 7:32:30 AM PST by echoBoomer

ANYONE who supposes that evolution doesn't happen, or doesn't matter, should spare a thought for H5N1, the virus causing avian flu. If we're unlucky, this virus will give us a nasty demonstration of evolution in action...At the moment, the virus cannot pass easily from one person to another. But there are a couple of ways it could evolve to do so.

The virus might infect someone already sick with a strain of human flu, and the two viruses could have sex, thus creating a new virus that contains some genes from each. Such viral hanky-panky is thought to have led to the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968. Or the virus could mutate - acquire accidental changes to its genetic material - in such a way that it becomes able to travel between people. Mutations to an avian flu virus are thought to lie behind the 1918 pandemic...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atheism; atheist; birdflu; crevolist; darwinism; evolution; faith; flu; materialism; naturalism; naturalistic; virus
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1 posted on 11/06/2005 7:32:31 AM PST by echoBoomer
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To: echoBoomer

Darn horny slut virus bastard children.


2 posted on 11/06/2005 7:34:28 AM PST by Manic_Episode (It's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly)
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To: echoBoomer

Can't get the article. "Redirection limit exceeded..."


3 posted on 11/06/2005 7:35:34 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: echoBoomer

Yawn.
A virus remains a virus.
BFD
Another anti-God kook trying to convince everyone to share his irrational faith.
When that virus becomes some other species, let us know.


4 posted on 11/06/2005 7:35:36 AM PST by XR7
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To: echoBoomer

And so, because a virus might mutate, we can obviously see how a single-cell water-dwelling organism can mutate into a human being.....


5 posted on 11/06/2005 7:37:50 AM PST by TWohlford
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To: echoBoomer
"So let's not strip evolution from the textbooks, or banish it from the class, or replace it with ideologies born of wishful thinking. If we do, we might find ourselves facing the consequences of natural selection."

If someone doesn't believe humans descended from ape-like creatures, they can't manufacture a vaccine against the bird flu? And who is trying to strip evolution from textbooks? Sounds like our poor biologist is afraid of any competition against TOE.
6 posted on 11/06/2005 7:38:29 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: echoBoomer

Not concerned I just will take my Colloidal Silver.


7 posted on 11/06/2005 7:39:37 AM PST by zipp_city
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To: Manic_Episode
Darn horny slut virus bastard children.

Now to clean coffee from my monitor!

ROTFLMAO!!!

9 posted on 11/06/2005 7:40:06 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: XR7

So you are admitting that mutation and natural selection can lead to a new adaptation that can have selective advantage?


10 posted on 11/06/2005 7:43:43 AM PST by USConstitutionBuff
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To: XR7
Yawn. A virus remains a virus. BFD Another anti-God kook trying to convince everyone to share his irrational faith. When that virus becomes some other species, let us know.

Just look at the source, the tired, boring ole rag the New York Times.
LOL. They are so hard up that even WE got a free copy of the Sunday Times here in California.

11 posted on 11/06/2005 7:44:46 AM PST by starfish923 ( It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
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To: mlc9852

What is lost on die-hard eveolutionists, is the fact that it takes just as much faith to believe in "single celled organisms mutating into a human", as it does to believe in "creation".

Mutation is observable, however eveolution is only an unproven theory. This fact drives evolutionists crazy when you mention it.

If we can teach one theory in our schools, we should be able to teach another.


12 posted on 11/06/2005 7:45:59 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: starfish923

I also find it humorous that the NYTs is so hard up for subscriptions that they are trying to peddle their tripe on the west coast.


13 posted on 11/06/2005 7:47:12 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: USConstitutionBuff
So you are admitting that mutation and natural selection can lead to a new adaptation that can have selective advantage?

IT HAS TO.
It produced Arnold Schwarzenegger.


14 posted on 11/06/2005 7:47:16 AM PST by starfish923 ( It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
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To: echoBoomer
two viruses could have sex

and grasshoppers could build airplanes.

ML/NJ

15 posted on 11/06/2005 7:47:37 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: DoughtyOne
I also find it humorous that the NYTs is so hard up for subscriptions that they are trying to peddle their tripe on the west coast.

It warms, Ah say, it warms the cockels of mah heart. (Foghorn Leghorn) Lol.

It's a waste of time and money for them.
Those leftists who WOULD pay for the rag already have. The rest of us who WOULDN'T pay for the rag already chuck it -- only because we don't have birdcages or puppies in training.

16 posted on 11/06/2005 7:51:39 AM PST by starfish923 ( It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
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To: XR7

Exactly. A viris is a viris - microevolution.

Call me when a bug turns into a horse - or even a more extreme case, when a Democratic leader into an honest person.


17 posted on 11/06/2005 7:53:10 AM PST by Pittsburg Phil
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To: XR7

Exactly. A viris is a viris - microevolution.

Call me when a bug turns into a horse - or even a more extreme case, when a Democratic leader into an honest person.


18 posted on 11/06/2005 7:53:17 AM PST by Pittsburg Phil
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To: echoBoomer
Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College in London.

Oh my gaaawwwwd, "British Science" strikes another blow for research.
NOT.

An EEEEEvolutionary scientist. Harhar.

19 posted on 11/06/2005 7:54:18 AM PST by starfish923 ( It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
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To: starfish923

Yes, I say yes, I do agree...

For years my folks bought the LA Times. I couldn't believe they would support such a destructive organization.

The Times people call me every few months to see if I want the paper. Usually such calls annoy me. With the Times I enjoy the calls. I keep the caller on the line while I read them the riot act over the subversive anti-U.S. communist propaganda it spews on the public.

The last time they called the person on the other end of the line tried to present a list of conservative voices the Times had hired over the last couple of years. I told him the Times had tried to destroy everything I supported about this nation for the last thirty years. I wouldn't be interested until they had a proven track record of a decade or more, supporting wholesome values.

It's obvious they hear the same thing over and over. They are prepared to react to such complaints. I guess propaganda can only be so effective. LOL


20 posted on 11/06/2005 7:58:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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