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To: f.Christian
You have this idea about transitional life forms you call simple biology---morphing...

nobody has ever seen it and you call this science---a holy grail---great discovery...unified theory?

Ever wonder why you need to get a new flu shot every year? How about the strain of TB that is now resistant to antibiotics?

658 posted on 04/07/2002 3:50:32 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
Ever wonder why you need to get a new flu shot every year?

Flu is a generic term for different pathogens. Not everything called "flu" has the same source, that is why you need new flu shots each year.

How about the strain of TB that is now resistant to antibiotics?

Some say that such bacteria have mutated due to antibiotics. Whether that is true or not, they are still TB bacteria, they have not changed in kind, they have just adapted within the same basic genotype. You have to realize that most medicines have high specificity. The reason for that is that one does not want to destroy good cells with medicine only bad cells, so medicines used against an infection are very specific against that particular infection in order to minimize side effects. Therefore a change that renders a particular medicine useless is a very small change and not an evolutionary one or a transformational one.

704 posted on 04/07/2002 10:19:36 AM PDT by gore3000
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