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To: Ichneumon
Did you read your source. It points to the handful of disease organisms and their changes as proving the benefit of the entirity of evolutionary theory.

We've all been through this business before of trying to deal with the problem of "speciation" in bacteria and viruses.

It does take us beyond Darwin's book about "The origin of species" you know, 'cause all those changes in the disease bugs don't give us new species ~ just bugs better able to defeat our own immune system ~ not that they are trying to defeat it ~ they just don't want to git'et by our white blood cells.

Point being that changes in immunology are only by the greatest of stretches described as "evolution in action".

104 posted on 09/13/2006 4:56:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Did you read your source.

Of course.

It points to the handful of disease organisms and their changes as proving the benefit of the entirity of evolutionary theory.

No, it doesn't. Care to make up and post any more nonsense?

We've all been through this business before of trying to deal with the problem of "speciation" in bacteria and viruses.

And you have failed to learn anything from the experience.

It does take us beyond Darwin's book about "The origin of species" you know, 'cause all those changes in the disease bugs don't give us new species ~ just bugs better able to defeat our own immune system ~ not that they are trying to defeat it ~ they just don't want to git'et by our white blood cells.

Yup, as I was saying about your failure to learn anything from the discussion...

Point being that changes in immunology are only by the greatest of stretches described as "evolution in action".

Evolution is the change in genetic information across generations. "Changes in immunology" are very much evolution in action. If you think otherwise, then you're grossly ignorant of the most elementary tenets of evolution.

168 posted on 09/13/2006 5:43:56 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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