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Why not teach problems with ToE in school?

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pink sasquatch
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08-06-2004 8:02 PM 		Reply to: Message 122 by DBlevins
08-06-2004 2:13 AM

Re: Problems of evolution taught in school
Wasn't there a lady in Africa (a prostitue I think) who was found to be immune to HIV and who has passed that immunity to her offspring...
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Perhaps you are thinking of natural allelic variants in the CCR5 gene - CCR5 is used by HIV to interact with and infect cells.
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Some CCR5 variants prevent infection all together, while others delay onset of AIDS or the extremity of AIDS. Other variants in CCR5 actually accelerate onset of AIDS.
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Her body is able to rapidly adapt and provide immunity to the changes that the HIV virus mutates into.
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Given what I know about HIV biology, a human "adapting" as fast as the virus is impossible - perhaps this statement is a misinterpretation or exaggeration by a non-science source...
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08-06-2004 8:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 105 by nator
07-31-2004 11:22 AM

Re: Problems of evolution taught in school
Second, a big beneficial mutation in humans is the partial to full immunity to HIV that some people conferred from their anscestors who survived the Bubonic Plague in Europe.
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I've heard the plague - HIV immunity link is bogus, that an analogy or inference was made between the individual immunity to the two that got misconstrued.
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Do you have a source for the claim? I just want to make sure bogus claims don't get thrown around, and would like to correct myself if I'm mistaken...
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