God’s Pandemic Posted Oct 26, 2005  God’s Pandemic   Even as the
new “Scopes Trial” over evolution vs. “intelligent design” is
underway in Dover, PA, the proof that those who disparage Darwin
are hypocrites and charlatans is right in front of us.  The
Creationist-in-Chief, in his latest press conference, expressed
concern that the Bird Flu virus could evolve into a strain
capable of being transmitted from human to human, instead of
just from bird to bird or bird to human. If so, he warned, it
could lead to up to 2 million deaths in the U.S. alone.
Accordingly, he is proposing using the military to quarantine
areas of outbreaks. His backers in the Republican-led Congress
just slid $3.9 billion into the latest military funding bill to
cover epidemic preparedness in case the Bird Flu evolves into a
human flu.  What was that? The flu virus “evolves”?  H-m-m-m-m.
I wonder what else evolves? Life on earth, perhaps?  Are we
saying that viruses evolve, but not bacteria? Or that only
simple organisms evolve, but not c