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Stupid driver or attempted murder? - “he was probably trying to run over that obnoxious squawking bird he seemed to have pinned down” read more by rottenseed
Stupid driver or attempted murder? - “he was probably trying to run over that obnoxious squawking bird he seemed to have pinned down” read more by rottenseed
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" The flu virus adapts to attack immune systems. It doesn't evolve. Adaption and evolution are different. The virus doesn't change its form it changes it's tactic. It, just like everything else wants to survive so it adapts to do so. It doesn't evolve to do so."
Holy crap. I'm trying to stay out of these evolution/religion discussions because they just bore the shit out of me, but I've just got to speak up.
You are just flat out wrong. "Adapts" is synonymous with "evolves" (in the strict Darwinian sense) when you're talking about viruses.
Viruses are very simple organisms that replicate (and thus mutate....read: evolve) rapidly. Does this make them adapt? Yes. Is the adaptation non-evolutionary? Hardly. The changes in their ability to attack their host are derived *directly* from mutation/evolution. Viruses don't use "tactics" in any sense that *isn't* tied to their mutation/evolution. Hint: they don't have brains or consciousness....any "behaviour" they exhibit is in total lockstep with their biological chemistry.
In fact, they are a textbook example of an evolutionary model, and one of the simplest ways of demonstrating evolutionary principles because we can see changes in timeframes that aren't prohibitively gigantic. Successive generations of viruses are genetically different, in a measurable way, from their ancestors.
But, don't take my word for it.
http://www.college.ucla.edu/webproject/micro12/m12webnotes/viralevolution.htm
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/051115_birdflu
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/res_virus.html
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I could be wrong, but I think choggs is upset/freaked out by anyone manipulating---for better or worse---the collective "will", and that that will is really an illusion that we create for ourselves. So Al Gore is is a false prophet of a non-revolution for a cause that doesn't exist.
Or another way of putting it: people are generally sheep, some are smarter than others....and then there are wolves. Hence we are always flirting with fascism/tyranny in one way or another, though the wolves give it different names and faces to make us feel better about being led about as they feed off of the flock.
Am I close?
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