Comments on: Viruses: Originally Created Good? http://truthmatters.info/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/ Because the truth really does matter! Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ed Rybicki http://truthmatters.info/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1587 Ed Rybicki Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:17:19 +0000 http://afdave.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1587 Oh, how wonderful...viruses as part of "intelligent design"! People, people...virus are escaped bits of genomes, whose only similarities are that they share a lifestyle which involves using cellualr organisms as hosts to provide essential-to-virus functions like protein translation from mRNA. And that is their ONLY commonality. Viruses do NOT share the same single origin; they may well co-exist quite well with their hosts BUT are not symbiotic or even commensal in the same way bacteria frequently are. While they have probably contributed significantly to especially mammalian evolution - a retrovirus envelope protein is probably the reason we mammals have placentae, for example - it is far more likely that this is by blind chance than by design. Face it: this is a virus planet. There are probably 10exp31 virus particles on it, enough to outnumber all other organisms combined by a factor of 10 or more. And they don't have enough mind to worry about what we think, or why. Oh, how wonderful…viruses as part of “intelligent design”! People, people…virus are escaped bits of genomes, whose only similarities are that they share a lifestyle which involves using cellualr organisms as hosts to provide essential-to-virus functions like protein translation from mRNA.

And that is their ONLY commonality. Viruses do NOT share the same single origin; they may well co-exist quite well with their hosts BUT are not symbiotic or even commensal in the same way bacteria frequently are. While they have probably contributed significantly to especially mammalian evolution – a retrovirus envelope protein is probably the reason we mammals have placentae, for example – it is far more likely that this is by blind chance than by design.

Face it: this is a virus planet. There are probably 10exp31 virus particles on it, enough to outnumber all other organisms combined by a factor of 10 or more. And they don’t have enough mind to worry about what we think, or why.

]]> By: Manuel http://truthmatters.info/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1581 Manuel Wed, 20 May 2009 09:21:16 +0000 http://afdave.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1581 Yes, virus are essential for evolution :D Yes, virus are essential for evolution :D

]]> By: afdave honesty check: 2007/12/26 « Black5’s Weblog http://truthmatters.info/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1442 afdave honesty check: 2007/12/26 « Black5’s Weblog Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:56:21 +0000 http://afdave.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/viruses-originally-created-good/#comment-1442 [...] previous claims that there are hundreds of such articles. Additionally afdave is trivializing the large number of errors VoxRat is finding in an article by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. titled “Did God Make [...] [...] previous claims that there are hundreds of such articles. Additionally afdave is trivializing the large number of errors VoxRat is finding in an article by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. titled “Did God Make [...]

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