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To: exDemMom

Oh, this again. Evolution plays no role in medical research. That’s why God sends us new diseases to confound the unbelievers.


34 posted on 01/30/2016 8:45:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Seriously? You’re going to have a steep uphill battle to convince me of that, much less the thousands of other medical researchers who routinely use evolutionary principle to inform their research.

If it weren’t for evolution driving the constant change of microorganisms (and insects, rodents, etc.), we’d have wiped out infectious disease eons ago, and true “organic” agriculture would be the only agriculture we know, since pests would have been wiped out. But evolution, through the pressures of genetic selection, causes those nasty organisms to survive despite our best efforts to wipe them out.

I don’t suppose you are aware of the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria? How do you think they became resistant? Answer: they evolved resistance. And through other evolutionary processes, they shared those resistance mechanisms even with unrelated bacteria.

As I said, trying to conduct medical research while avoiding any use of evolutionary theory would be as futile as trying to conduct chemical research without any use of atomic theory. You can’t do research without understanding the fundamental laws and processes.


40 posted on 01/30/2016 8:56:39 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://wEven thouww.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Olog-hai

You really think your thuggish namecalling tactics are going to shut people up?


44 posted on 01/30/2016 9:10:04 AM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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