Science, Creation & EvolutionCains loverHelix wrote:I sincerely apologise. I did not realise that the HIV virus started in orangutans.
Thanx for giving me this info. I have no wish to insult anyone by bringing up this data. The reasons I first mentioned this was because I was curious whether or not god included the AIDS virus into the list of animals he created... After all, viruses are life forms as well, createded by god, as they say...
The flu virus is the result of men living in an unsanitary and close proximity with ducks and flu viruses mutate every year. The origin of viruses is poorly understood, but most virologists (people who study viruses) agree that each virus got started by copying a few useful genes from their host cells. Viruses are ignorant of any patent or copyright laws, they just make a copy of what they find useful in the host's genome and move on. Often that useful gene is intimately involved in the host's reproduction, food gathering, cell communication or other essential function of the cell. Over the generations viruses mutate their stolen genes and when a particularly useful mutation comes along, the virus will use it to further its own survival, usually to the detriment of its host. As the years and generations go by these viruses can even switch over to other species, find new genes to copy and then continue evolving in their own selfish way. Therefore, viruses were using recombinant genetics long before man had thought of it.
http://www.synapses.co.uk/science/fluvirus.html
BTW, you did not offend me.
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