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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



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