[f.Christian]

To: Dimensio

As I see it, evolution is an ideological doctrine. If it were only a "scientific theory", it would have died a natural death 50 - 70 years ago; the evidence against it is too overwhelming and has been all along. The people defending it are doing so because they do not like the alternatives to an atheistic basis for science and do not like the logical implications of abandoning their atheistic paradigm and, in conducting themselves that way, they have achieved a degree of immunity to what most people call logic.


488 posted on 7/29/02 5:18 AM Pacific by medved

[gore3000]

bump for one side

[gore3000]

and a ping to the other side

[The Great Satan]

Yip, I'm actually working on this stuff myself. Most likely the mechanism originally developed as a defense against RNA viruses and/or transposable elements. Over evolutionary time, it was likely co-opted to other roles, such as gene regulation, and as a result became indispensable, even in lineages which may have evolved other defenses against viruses and genome instability.