Russell
Posts: 1082
Joined: April 2005
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| Quote | | Please tell me if all scientists agreed right now that the 6-day creation story is correct, why they could not create a flu vaccine? |
Well, now, I can help you with that because vaccine research happens to be my job.
Early vaccines (Jenner's smallpox, Pasteur's rabies...) were based on empirical observations: they worked. But a lot of vaccine candidates don't work, or worse, actually exacerbate the disease they're supposed to prevent. Why they do that is the subject of intense research, involving all the tools of modern biology, to which evolutionary theory is integral. You can't pick up a journal, or go to a meeting, concerning vaccine development where evolution, whether of pathogens or of the immune system, is not explicitly or implicitly central to most of the articles or talks.
(...including mine... thanks, Gregonomic)
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Must... not... scratch... mosquito bite.
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