Re: black holes and intelligent design

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:35:13 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d01drf$qd9$1@sparta.btinternet.com>,
Franz Heymann <franz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote:
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>"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
>news:38hr3mF5mb9anU4@individual.net...
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>> Paul J Gans wrote:
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>> >
>> > Of course, if you don't believe in evolution, you are
>> > rather stumped by all this.
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>> I think you have conflated the terms mutations and evolution. Has
>> mutation in the various viruses produced a new species of virus?

Are two different strains of influenza considered different species?

>
>In the fullness of time it might
>It is primarily mutation which provides new genetic material for
>evolution to work on.
>Incidentally, I am not sure of the usage of the word "species" in
>relation to viruses. The word has to do with the capability of
>interbreeding, and viruses don't indulge in the pleasures of the
>flesh.

Bacteria do, and gene transfer is more of a driving force in their
evolution than mutations are. 

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