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Originally posted by preciousjeni
I'll contest this point. Evolution cannot be observed or reduplicated. What we study today is the effect of a process that has already and long ago occurred.
But, I fully agree with you that science and Christianity are compatible.
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Now, I am sorry, evolution CAN be observed in some species--maybe not humans because of our lifespans--but DEFINITELY microbes, including viruses...
They are currently sequencing the DNA of the SARS virus... SARS is a Coxsackie virus that somehow was able to mutate and become transmissible into humans from chickens (mainly). And then there are strains of SARS--strains are marked by variation of it's genetic material--RNA or DNA...
Then you have Avian Flu. Now that Influenza virus is NOT a joke and WHEN it hits the United States, you had better hope to God that we have a way to fight it...
HIV has switched around genetically at least 4 times since its knowledge... How does it do it? The Reverse Transcriptase--the stuff that AZT inhibits as well as other NNRTI's, is not "faithful"--called infidelity (
) in maintaining an EXACT copy of it's parent genetic material--so you get variation from virion particles to virion particles within the same cells that eventually HIV infection destroys... Besides the reverse transcriptase takes a couple of the "host cell's RNA" and incorporates that "information" when it become proliferative...
Then you have all the antibiotic resistant bacteria cropping up 'cuz folks take too many antibiotics rather than riding out the illness...
Where I live, Metrazin [sp?] resistant Staphylacoccus Aureas (MRSA) infection rates are up and it ain't coming from infections in the hospital...
Then E. coli is not a joke...
Then West Nile Virus ain't joking this year...
We are about to be hit with pestilence... And God forbid it will be from bioterrorism... Because even I can think up some crazy stuh...