From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 8:40: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1370937B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9083443E6E for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g87FcgGd047900; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g87Fcfl7047897; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:38:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:38:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Joshua Lee , , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <3D79A82B.A67E8686@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020907083655.K44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert 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. > > It is predictive of the mutuations. Among other things, this > allows us to use statistics and predictive models to decide > which flu to manufacture vaciones for, and which flu to ignore. *How* is evolution predictive of the mutations? One doesn't need to be an evolutionist in order to make such predictions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message