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Originally Posted by Shades
Guess what? At the end of the day, they are still viruses no matter how much they mutated and over what length of time and no research today can prove otherwise. No matter how many artificially created "high-pressure situations" scientists create, they can't get the virus to evolve into something else. It's based on assumptions and "projecting ideas"
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Sure it's still a virus, are you expecting a multi-celled organism after a few generations and adaptations?
The whole "macro" and "micro" evolution is silly. You can't have one and not have the other. Evolution is evolution regardless. The only reason you keep seeing this "micro" evolution is because it's the only one that can be reflected on our time scale.
Using the flu, look at how many there are currently; H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H1N2, etc. and that's just influenza A, there are also B and C. All of these are much different from each other, affecting different species differently. All of the flu viruses we have now are a result of mutations from a common source, which would be much different than what we see today.
We will likely never watch a natural example of evolution on a large time scale (like dinosaurs to birds), but that doesn't mean it's not real or doesn't exist. It doesn't take faith to determine it does either. All we're doing is looking towards the direction that our current evidence points us to. I just don't understand why you can believe and witness evolution happening to viruses, bacteria, flies, etc. and still stamp your feet and claim the same thing can't happen on a larger time scale.