Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
That's specious reasoning if ever I saw any. The subjective beliefs of the inventors of techniques are irrelevant - the truth or falsity of the double-helix model of DNA is not affected by nor does it lend credence to Francis Crick's theory that man was deposited on earth by space aliens.
But, to answer your first question, the reason why inflenza vaccines are needed annually are because the influenza virus mutates, and so a different strain arises every year. It's a simple, readily-observable form of evolution we see every year.
Now, whether evolution alone is an adequate mechanism which can explain the diversity of life, or even its very existence, is another question entirely. But that the evolutionary mechanism exists, and that it is a very powerful driving force in the biological world is pretty much undeniable.
IF there was evolution there would be a CLEAR process that could be shown in any and every Natural History Museum. I have been to many and haven't seen such things.
The scientist in question admits microevolution. Microevolution X 3 billion years = macroevolution.
Thank you....you said it MUCH better than I did!!
>>By the same reason, studying history is useless. <<
If it is false history, then it is.
Studying the B-29 was not useless for the Soviets, and they KNEW it was designed.
As I stated above, evolution does not address a creator.
One really has to question, is exclusion of God a form of negatively addressing God.
I don't address God when I am designing a new Hydrogen Maser (except possibly praying it will work as designed! LOL!). Is that then being negative?
To be more accurate, evolution is a mechanism of biological change. Evolution may be seized upon by secularists seeking to rationalize their philosophies, but that does not invalidate the biological mechanism.
I haven't had an influenza vaccination in over 15 years.
After re-reading your post, you sound a little anti-Christian there Physicist. Sure you want to leave that impression??
Even if evolution theory is totally wrong, the automatic default setting is not "God did it" (although that answer sure would make getting 100% on science tests easy). Leave the medieval thinking to the Taliban and the Jihadists.
Don't tell me birds cannot evolve!
The Ford Falcon evolved into the Mustang!
>>Evolution is a scientific theory and does not address God in any way shape or form.<<
You use the phrase "scientific theory" rather loosely. I always thought of science as being fairly exact. The word "evolution" is anything but.
I'd say it was more a "melding" of the Falcon with the Caddy, with the bad features of both.
Cats into dogs.
Dogs into cats.
Why are you addressing this remark to me? Does it contradict, or add to, the comment I made?
ML/NJ
It's not silly, if only because many FREVO's do indeed make the claim that our nation will fall behind in science and technology if evolution is allowed to be questioned. They have even claimed we would go backwards into the dark ages.
Saturn has rings. This knowledge has thus far been completely useless to mankind; but it's still true.
I agree that scientific hypotheses or knowledge shouldn't be discarded simply because they haven't yet proved useful in a practical way.
But again, the point isn't that evolution as a theory shouldn't be considered. The point is that evolution isn't the lynchpin of all modern science as some Evo's try to claim for it.
Let me explain it to you and then you can ignore it and conitnue with your non-sequitors.
Microbes evolve in the same way most species - those that survive being killed off pass thier genes, the ones that provided the survival traits, to their progeny. The mutational shifts can be tracked and for influenza there is a pattern to the shifts. These can be anticipated as the CDC has been doing for many years. They induce these shifts into strains of influenza that are maintained in the CDC labs. They use these induced strains to make vaccines that are rushed in the Fall of every year to clinicians who administed them to patients at risk. It is not a perfect system but considered better than doing nothing.
Now regarding your comment about a creationist "inventing" vaccines - would it be any different to you if they were invented by an evolutionist? Would you withold them from your young children if this was the case?
There is far more evidence supporting the theory of evolution (and indeed it is a scientific theory) than gravitational theory.
Do you deny that gravity exists?
Saturn's "rings" were earlier seen as "horns", and because of that Saturn and his counterparts (Ba'al), became the god to whom children were sacrificed.
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