From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 10:37:16 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 1E38B37B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CC943E42 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0206.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.206] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17njW9-0006Ug-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:37:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7A3908.41093D70@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:36:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Joshua Lee , dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020907083655.K44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > 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. Evolution in this case is merely a useful theory, in that its applicaiton gives predictive results in the problem domain of *what* mutations will survive the ambient selection pressures. I think we need to create a new list to discuss this properly, so as to provide a satisfactory answer to your question; I suggest: phd-in-epidemiology@freebsd.org -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message