Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020907080308.B44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20020907014049.GD16913@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > An understanding of the characteristics of mutation in virrii, and > > the development of new vaccines are not at all dependent on the > > theory of evolution. Mutations != evolution. > > On the very contrary. Evolution can only go forth through mutation. > Please do read Darwin's ``Origin of the Species'' again. You have not established that mutations drive evolution. That's the *theory*. Producing variations of the same thing is not evolution, it's just differentiation within a species. And virii are not a complex enough organism to establish anything like macro-evolution. Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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