From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 8 17:59:28 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 BC01D37B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7610C43E3B for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H25003BCC2Y90@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:59:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:59:23 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-reply-to: <3D7A3908.41093D70@mindspring.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Neal E. Westfall" , Giorgos Keramidas , Joshua Lee , dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <619CB845-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 01:36 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > "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 > how about clavinsits@freebsd.org? > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message