Should we only give the flu vaccine to Evolutionists?

Question

With a shortage of the flu vaccine last year I came up with an idea:

There is a new flu vaccine every year because the influenza virus evolves every year to be resistant to last years vaccine. This means that if you don't believe in evolution, you don't believe there is a need for a new vaccine every year. There should be a statement you have to sign in order to get the vaccine basically stating you accept evolution as scientific fact and that is why you would like a vaccine. I know a lot of people who would refuse to sign something like that. So wouldn't that keep us from having a shortage?

Lol. I knew what I was getting into with this question. I wanted to see some of the different answers

Answer 1

In fairness, the new flu vaccine each year is not required primarily because the existing flu has evolved, but rather because a different strain has become dominant in the area, perhaps due to being imported by migrant people or wildlife. However, your system might work well for treatment of tuberculosis, which has evolved since it was first discovered.

Answer 2

Actually, most creationists will show you how they believe in natural selection if you will give them the chance.

God created the universe and all the things in it. He created the species. He created Humans.

After the flood, there was a very limited breeding pool,

It is obvious that there has been a lot of divergence of from the limited pairs of the "kinds" of animals that made up the breeding stock after the flood. It is obvious that natural selection takes place all the time. We can all observe changes in populations of relatively simple creatures over a short period of time. After all bacteria seem to evolve.

The genetic diversity has existed in the genome since the beginning. As the environment has changed, the forces in the environment have caused the traits to become significant.

There are Pennicillin resistant strains of E.Coli in samples of dung taken in the 1920's. Why is that? . We did not have the anti-biotic then to cause the resistance.
The use/misuse of the antibiotic cause the trait of resistance to pennicillin to become reproductively valuable to the bacteria.
NOW it looks like there are a lot more resistant E coli.
They were always there. The resistance was not valuable to them so it was not important.

God built the diversity into the genome of all his creatures. I'm not going to say that is smart, because I'm not smart enough to comment.

But i do think it is pretty cool...

We can change the world with love. Jesus loves you, too. It says so in the bible.

Answer 3

Your question makes no sense since the virus does not evolve every year. The vaccine is based on the best prediction of the surface molecules the virus will have the next year. It's a basic principle of recombinational genetics that determines the Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase presented on the surface.

Maybe we could deny the vaccine to ignorant people and we would have plenty. You obviously have slipped past the stringent selection criteria for evolution of intelligent human beings.

Answer 4

Vaccinations are bad for you!

A vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.
There are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.
Just sit back and think for a while.
Is there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your bloodstream.
We have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.

The Vaccination Hoax
http://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html

Answer 5

There they go again. Another example of those Nazi headed, hypocritical evolutionists forcing their beliefs down someone else's thoat. He would have made a great Gestapo Agent, don't you think? "Believe in my god, evolution, or you will die." Probably still believes that the Piltdown man is the missing link.

Of course, this type of thinking is what would be expected from someone who does not believe in a Creator to Whom he will answer. What governs his actions, his thoughts, how he lives his life? Why it's him, of course. A person filled with flawed thinking, prone to errors in judment, who's thoughts about what is right or wrong change with his whim about what serves his needs best at the time.

So why would it surprise anyone that he would come up with an idea that would kill others unless they believe like he does.... not surprising at all.

Answer 6

first of all i do no longer think you, you look adimant that the influenza virus isn't evolving, yet you haven't any longer any evidence to back it up. 2nd, i do no longer think the guy you cite as a prominant advent scientist is somewhat very prominant. 0.33 you're saying your self you do get a clean flu shot each 12 months and you by some ability assume me to have self belief it rather is a spending shot. Fourth, THE FLU VIRUS IS EVOLVING, which you haven't any longer proved incorrect, subsequently if i exploit the comparable good judgment you do this could mean evolution exists.

Answer 7

I know of no shortage of flu vaccine this year, but I would not take it again for a million.

Answer 8

of course
everyone should be given flu vaccine
be it an evolutionist or somebody else
that is to prevent the flu

Answer 9

Well, if you keep the vaccine from the creationists then that just means we get to see God sooner and the evolutionist get to stay here a bit longer before speding their eternity in Hell

Answer 10

No because those who dont believe that Christ created this earth under the direction of our father in heaven should learn the truth about how this world and we came to be. I will be willing to share my faith with all of you who are interested if so. Email me or go to www.lds.org