Discover Magazine's new cover has a spread on our new-found creator: the virus. Once again, Philosophical Naturalists make telling statements: "Now the viruses appear to present a creation story of their own: a stirring, topsy-turvy, and decidedly unintelligent design wherein life arose more by reckless accident than original intent, through an accumulation of genetic accounting errors committed by hordes of mindless, microscopic replication machines..."
There is, of course, no science to back up this statement, just an assertion. And certainly no questioning of the philosophy that supports this kind of statement (that, for example, all of nature's laws emerged from chaos, or of course nothing...) But they never mind, they just keep pushing the agenda. Simple question: Might viruses be 'designed' to adapt to their environment / host? I doubt we'll see an answer to that in a 'science' journal such as Discover...
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