From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 8 17:57:33 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 4B89537B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A4643E65 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H250075DBZTW4@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:57:29 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-reply-to: <20020907131116.W44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <1D9E168A-C38F-11D6-8C5E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 04:12 PM, Neal E. Westfall wrote: > > > 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. > > Ahem. Evolution *requires* mutations to function, i.e. is *driven* > by mutations. But the fact that mutations occur does not prove > evolution. Mutations and evolution are two different things. > Mutation is a mechanism of evolution. Evolution is the process. One could make the leap of faith that since we mutate over time and these mutations change the species we evolve... --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message