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Unintelligent Design

scientists recently discovered a virus called Mimi. this isnt any old virus, this is the friendly giant of all viruses. Mimi, unlike all known viruses can be seen with a high powered microscope (one that can see very small bacteria).

Mimi has given weight to different theories on how life on earth came to be.
here is the link explaining things. it is quite long but an interesting read.
http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-06/cover/

so what do you think and do you believe that viruses are alive, led to life, or are they just little packets of rna wrapped in protein (ie not alive)?
  • E to the rescue.
    Intelligent design.

    "They should teach E design. Unintelligent design. Where I pay some drunk guy to design the universe. It'll explain flightless birds."

    -thingsmyboyfriendsays.com


    Anyhoo, RNA wrapped in protien, that sounds pretty logical. RNA that has 'infect that kid with HIV' written into sounds about right, but how does the virus survive other cells attacking it if it's just protien. Do you mean it has an membrane that cannot me penetrated? I think viruses are pretty much alive. It can react to its environment and cause chaos and multiply in a human body. Anything that reacts to its surroundings, can be killed off, and can multiply at all by itself/sexually, that to me is alive.
    Voted for by Oral Fixation.
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  • Pattern=life?
    Abiotic life gives form to biotic life, makes sense to me
    Voted for by Molzahn.
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  • Slightly uneducated
    The world isn't perfect we know, but I say the man wasn't drunk he was bored and wanted to see what would happen.

    As for Viruses you are a bio major, viruses attact all cell even the ones attacking them, they fail to take out those types of blood cells however except in certain cases such as HIV, but they use the cell with their own encoded RNA to try to outnumber the opposing antibody cells.
    Voted for by LostPriest.
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