Why did god make the HIV virus evolve so quickly?

Question

Is it so we can see evolution work in real time?

funny stuff

Answer 1

According to some viruses don't count as life though.

Answer 2

You must be joking. Where do you get the "evolve so quickly" bit. Anyway viruses do that. That's what the do the mutate all the time. And finally what has god got to do with it. Are you suggesting he is siting up there in a level 5 bio-hazard lab creating deadly strains just to kill a few humans or other life forms because???? some of us have sinned??? On the other hand why not it seems to be his favorite MO. Ahhh what is that I see a few sinners in Sodom and some more in Gomorrah. his is unbearable to me so I will destroy everybody and start from scratch. Kill millions of innocent kids. He even killed his own son.

Answer 3

some interesting answers.

It prompted me to revisit wikipedia's virus entry.

The concept of a virus as an organism challenges the way we define life: viruses do not respire, they do not display irritability; they do not move they do not grow, however, they do most certainly do reproduce, and may adapt to new hosts by changing their genomes. By older, more zoologically and botanically biased criteria, then, viruses are not living. However, this sort of argument results from a top down sort of definition, which has been modified over years to take account of smaller and smaller things (with fewer and fewer legs, or leaves), until it has met the ultimate molechisms or organules - that is to say, viruses - and has proved inadequate. If one defines life from the bottom up - that is, from the simplest forms capable of displaying the most essential attributes of a living thing - one very quickly realises that the only real criterion for life is simply the ability of an organism to replicate, and that only systems that contain nucleic acids - in the natural world, at least - are capable of this phenomenon. This sort of reasoning has led to a new definition of organisms: "An organism is the unit element of a continuous lineage with an individual evolutionary history." The key words here are UNIT ELEMENT, and INDIVIDUAL: the thing that you see, now, as an organism, is merely the current slice in a continuous lineage; the individual evolutionary history denotes the independence of the organism over time.

I'd say viruses display all the relevant properties of life.

Answer 4

this is uncertain through character of the virus because it in simple terms assaults immune cells and could no longer proceed to exist fairly exterior the physique. apparently adequate, motives why there is not any treatment for HIV is using the fact it mutates(variations shape) a lot and rapidly that antibodies that the physique creates to destroy the virus substitute into ineffective on the recent kind.

Answer 5

Get real! God didn't have to do anything to get HIV or any STD to spread and evolve so quickly. We humans did it to ourselves by our indiscriminate sexual practices of which I was guilty of. The same thing for the rest of the way this world is going eg. war, disease, pollution (global warming) etc. Why blame it on God?

Answer 6

Don't you know that there is no evolution. God creates brand new versions of the virus every couple of seconds. Not using the old model mind you. Starts the whole thing over from scratch. Boom, there it is!

Answer 7

This is not absolute.

Perhaps because moral decay was happening very fast.
Perhaps it was to slow down the moral decay.
Perhaps it was to cull out some of humanity as other diseases have done throughout time.
Whatever it was, it certainly did happen very quickly and all over the world.
The more promiscuous the society the faster it went through the society.

Answer 8

Why is God to blame for thing that has or is going wrong in the world?
Was it not the first human pair that rejected Gods counsel and went out following Satan until their death?
To blame Jehovah for all the bad things on earth is wrong! People are still believing in those same lies Satan told to Eve almost 6,000 years ago.

Answer 9

My answer would not be PC, so I will not post it here, least i be deleted for offending someone, somewhere.

I think that human activity had something to do with the rise and spread of a virulent strain of a naturally occurring virus that previously only existed in monkeys in the wild.

Answer 10

Maybe it is God's idea of a punishment for bad people. With so many bad people today the old lightning bolt thing is costing big bucks with electricity.