Why is evolution hiding?

[Michael Schubert]

Michael, medicines are developed the exact same way machines are developed.
By the application of human intelligence.
Leave that aspect out (which is what Darwin started out with) and you have zero development.
Your mentors have cleverly called what we do every day- "Evolution".
They lie.

*grins* Tsk, tsk.

Ever wonder why flu shots have to be given every year professor?

After all, once you get the flu, your body keeps the antibodies used to fight off that flu for the rest of your life.

Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers have recovered antibodies to the virus -- from elderly survivors of the original outbreak.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...223642.htm

This is all the flu shot does. It makes our body develop antibodies against a certain strain of flu. Either there is a never ending number of strains of flu viruses that have always existed and will always exist, or somehow, curiously, there are new strains of flu that have appeared from seemingly nowhere every single year.

The basic reason for the difference between the flu vaccine and many other vaccines is that the flu virus evolves much more rapidly than do viruses like measles, mumps, and polio. Our bodies fight off diseases, in part, through the production of antibodies that help our immune systems recognize and attack foreign invaders. Vaccines work by priming the body with the right antibodies to fight a particular disease before it gets a foothold and makes us sick. For measles, mumps, and polio, this works just fine. If you were fully vaccinated for these diseases as a child (or had the disease as a child) and your body encounters one of these pathogens many years later, it is extremely likely that your body's antibodies will be able to recognize the intruders and attack them. However, the flu evolves so much from season to season that last year's antibodies usually cannot recognize this year's viral strain. So if you were vaccinated for flu last year or had the flu last year, it indicates nothing about your body's ability to fend off the bug this year.

In fact, in a process called antigenic drift, flu evolves in response to the antibodies our bodies produce each year. During the course of a flu epidemic, many people gain immunity to the strain of the virus that is currently circulating. Through the process of natural selection, any flu virus particles that happen to carry mutations that allow them to slip by the defenses of common antibodies will be favored, produce more copies of themselves, and eventually, spread to more new victims. This process leads to the evolution of new strains, one or some of which are likely to become the cause of next year's flu season.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary...130201_flu

Thank you very much, my well-informed friend. You have saved me so much time and energy in explaining Evolutionary Science 101 to the ignorant one back there.

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Michael, medicines are developed the exact same way machines are developed.
By the application of human intelligence.
Leave that aspect out (which is what Darwin started out with) and you have zero development.
Your mentors have cleverly called what we do every day- "Evolution".
They lie.

There are diseases, right now, that have evolved a resistance to antibiotics since humans started using them. They never had it before, but they have developed it in response to evolutionary selections pressures added by medicinal science.

They're called superbugs, colloquially. Perhaps you've heard of them? They're kind of a big concern in the medical community, people are dying because they do exist, and they do exist because they have evolved.

You lie.

The same goes for you.