Disease
Swine Flu
Typically swine flu does not infect humans but occasionally it mutates and then is capable of infecting humans. Contact with pigs is usually necessary to “catch” swine flu but sometimes it mutates further and is transmissible from human to human.
Cancer
Cancer reminds us of the brokenness, the suffering, and the mortality of creation in this present age, all traceable back to Adam’s sin. Genesis makes it clear that everything in the original creation, was “very good.” We can infer that cancer was not a part of that, since the Bible describes death as an “enemy.”
Bird Flu
It is plain to see that the genetic code of bird flu viruses does not stay the same but is constantly mutating and rearranging. Because virus proteins interact with proteins in the cells they infect, changes in the viral protein can have effects on what type of cells can be infected. So what should one say if asked, “Is the ‘bird flu’ evolving?”
What About Malaria and Other Diseases Before the Fall?
Mosquitoes in the original creation were likely pollinators able to derive the nutrients needed to reproduce from plants without consuming blood. But what about the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium before “the Fall”?
Articles About Disease
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Magazine Department ArticleAIDS—No End in SightJan. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. The deadly pandemic virus has been responsible for more than 25 million deaths.
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Nov. 13, 2006 from Answers Magazine
Governments and industries are attempting to educate the public with a basic understanding of the bird flu virus and precautionary measures to take against it.
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May 16, 2006 from Answers Magazine
Is the bird flu evolving? The bird flu is changing, but not in the Darwinian sense that it will become something other than an influenza virus.
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Magazine ArticleThe First Book of Public HygieneDec. 1, 2003, pp. 52–55
The nuns at the Yambuku mission hospital were using five unsterilized needles to give injections to hundreds of people each day. Epidemiologists have concluded that this caused the outbreak.
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Magazine ArticleRats! Another Case of Sickle Cell AnaemiaMarch 1, 1995, pp. 44–45
As a biology teacher I explain to my higher biology class the so-called 'evidence' for evolution. This often means demonstrating that the evidence is inconclusive.
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Magazine ArticleSickle-Cell Anaemia Does not Prove Evolution!March 1, 1994, pp. 40–41
Sixth-graders I have lectured on genetic counselling invariably pop some questions such as: ‘Is it true that the sickle-cell phenomenon has established Darwinian evolution as fact?’
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