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Joined: Mar 2008
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Greetings! Suggested reading for those unfamiliar with the dynamics of gene mutation would be to start with CCR5 delta 32. Its involvement as a mutation in the black death powerfully illustrates the role evolution plays in an organism's struggle for survival and how this can happen from generation to generation. Well, your own source says It has been hypothesized that this allele was favored by natural selection during the Black Death, or during smallpox outbreaks, but this is unlikely, given that the frequency of CCR5-?32 in Bronze Age samples is similar to that seen today. Welcome to the game. About 10 percent of Europeans have a gene mutation known as CCR5 delta 32 that disables a protein the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) uses to slip into immune system cells. Those with one copy of this gene have some immunity to HIV and those with two copies are virtually immune to the virus.[60] This genetic mutation arose about 700 years ago and it has been suggested by some researchers that survivors of bubonic plague may have selected for the mutation. However, work published in 2003 suggests that smallpox was a more likely driver for the rise of the mutation. Both links contradict what you say. It is my opinion that you are attempting to waste people's time. I cannot wish you luck in this endeavour unless I employ sarcasm. I suppose you could be a victim of believing the things commonly said about creationists by the closed-minded, but I have a good idea this is not the case. Without mutations evolution is non-existent and life ceases to reproduce and proliferate; Now that's a fresh assertion! Others may comment thereupon, but I think it speaks for itself.
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
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