I don't know if any of you read the links I posted from Duane Jeffery (zoology prof. at BYU), but one of the articles... http://www.heraldextra.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... ...brought up the point that, if all we see here is the product of intelligent design, one must wonder about the designer when it comes to some of the really nasty stuff he's put here. The article references "...three major tropical diseases caused by trypanosomes. These are single-celled parasites belonging to the biological kingdom Protista (or Protoctista). They are not bacteria since they possess cell nuclei and other complex internal structures. The three diseases, in order, are: Leishmaniasis, native to 88 countries on four continents (Asia, Africa, South America and central North America. Caused by 20 or more species of protozoans of the genus Leishmania, these are transmitted by sand flies. Some forms are self-healing and "merely" leave disfiguring scars. Other forms cause anemia and fevers and then kill. Slowly. Chagas disease, native to 18 countries in Central America and South America. Chagas is caused by infection with Trypanosoma cruzi; infections may be relatively mild though they are especially lethal in children. The disease may seem to go into apparent remission for years, but the parasite is really just invading all the major organs of the body and may then produce decades of debilitation, or cause death due to damage to the heart, esophagus or intestines. It is transmitted by bites and fecal deposits into breaks in the skin by a group of insects called assassin bugs. Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, endemic in 36 African countries lying within 15 degrees of the equator. Caused by various species of protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, this disease is conveyed by tsetse flies. It causes severe debilitation for decades and eventual death due to central nervous system failure. But it constantly shifts its protein coats so as to present literally thousands of different targets for the body's immune system to combat. Complex? Diabolically so." If this is the deliberate work of an intelligent designer, he's (I'll leave female deity out of this) one sick, sadistic creep to target children, the old and infirm. I personally would like to think God left that kind of stuff to random mutation and natural selection... -Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com