Quote: Peter Doherty on Viruses  Attention: open in a new
window. PDFPrintE-mail  "Even the Intelligent Design people
don't want to claim them as being created by some extrinsic
force. They are simply selected."  Prof. Peter Doherty,
Immunologist and Nobel Laureate, Interview broadcast 16 Jan
2006, ABC (Australia) Classic FM  Editorial Comment: Peter
Doherty's statement exposes the weakness of both the Intelligent
Design Movement and evolutionary theory. The I. D. people can't
explain viruses because they don't like the idea of a designer
who would deliberately make destructive parasites. The
evolutionists are no help because the claim that viruses were
"simply selected" only explains what happened to them after they
appeared amongst living things. It does not explain where
viruses came from. Viruses are not a problem for Biblical
Creation, which tells us the Creator made all things good, but
the world has been corrupted because of human sin and judgement,
so viruses are the degenerate victims of sins curse,