Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
Possibly not ALL modern science, but biology? Absolutely!
Those who wish to pursue Life Sciences without understanding the underlying foundation are certainly able to.
Many Engineers don't know physics. Many Programmers who use SQL don't understand The Relational Model.
But all these people top out at "Practitoner." They will never be on the forward edge of any real research.
What the bacteria are doing isn't so much "evolution" as it is having sexual congress.
But...a flu virus remains a flu virus. It doesn't become, say, a dog. One can raise examples of micro-evolution all they want, it lends no credence to the conclusion that higher life forms rise from lower ones.
What the flu virus is doing isn't so much "evolution" as it is something truly strange since viruses don't have sex.
Ping a ding ding to a ding dong dinglebat.
"What the flu virus is doing isn't so much "evolution" as it is something truly strange since viruses don't have sex."
From the perspective of the virus, it's merely developing immunity to disease.
You gotta be kidding.
Not good to continue to mix philosophy, natural philosophy, theology. Aquinas divided these as far as he could so as to get the maximum benefit from each. It would be well to continue following that plan.
Really?!? Do you have a source for this? Because my understanding is that the CDC proccess involves predicting which four or five of the known existing influenza strains are likely to be the most prevalent. And their vaccination production is tied to these existing strains with NO ANTICIPATION OF MUTATIONS.
If the CDC is actually vaccinating us against a yet to be identified strain of Influenza, I think there are many people who would like to know about that.
A few tweeks here and there and we can actually combine several viruses into a new one, and it with others, and so on.
It's more like they are loose parts ~ and Crick was probably right about how they got here.
Evolution doesn't require sex. It requires change in expressed DNA.
I see you are here already. Wanted to ping you to this latest bit of pseudo-science from a website (and a poorly designed one at that) called http://creationsafaris.com/
LOL
Evolution is also near useless to physics. In fact, evolution is anathema to physics and cosmology. Evolution appears to be useful to botanists and animal physiologists, so let them use it if they want.
sexual reproduction is not a prerequisite to the evolution of a biological system. Virus's mutate (evolve) and the one's that survive and go on to create infectious diseases are the one's that mutate to a form against which a "network" of humans have not developed immunity. That is evolution and survival of the fittest in action.
As an unreconstructed Judeophile, I thank you kindly and sincerely, but I'm not equal to the honor, being Pennsylvania Dutch in ancestry, Moravian by upbringing, and a Deist by faith.
I believe that God created everything just the way he wanted it...he made NO mistakes....
I agree completely. (That's the essence of Deism, by the way.) Because God created the universe exactly right from the very first instant (i.e. at the Big Bang), He has had no need to interfere or adjust its workings at any time. Therefore, some sort of materialistic, automatic process must have generated the species we see today. If not Darwinism, then something else (Lamarckism, Lysenkoism, what have you). To believe otherwise is to demand divine tinkering, which is another word for correction, which can only imply mistakes.
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.
I've been to many, and I've seen them bursting with such things.
The Church accepts evolution as scientific fact.
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