Molecular clock analysis shows that HIV has diversified.

10/05/2008 | 11:55 AM | Evolved Rationalist

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A preserved specimen of lymph node nearly half a century old has revealed how rapidly the HIV virus has diversified, according to international research.

A team of researchers from around the world has been trawling through decades-old tissue samples from African hospital archives in the hope of finding samples containing the HIV virus.

They struck it lucky with a sample that was collected back in 1960, from a woman living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This is the second-oldest sample of the HIV virus ever found - the oldest is from 1959.

The researchers found that the HIV viral sequences these two samples differ significantly in their genetic makeup.

While the real scientists were trawling through decades-old tissue samples in hospital archives, the creationists were busy whining and and BAWWWWing about how evolution is wrong (by not doing any real science) and choosing to live off their gullible flock of sheep instead.

RAAAAAGGGGEEEEE!

Fuck you, creationists. Fuck you theistarded piles of hypocritical dung.

For some real science, the paper in Nature regarding this discovery can be found here.

Creationists, get an education, learn something, and stop being gullible, theistarded sheep. Whenever science trumps your idiotic beliefs to the ground, rest assured that a lot of us are having lulz at your expense, and there is nothing your so-called god can do about the fact that science is kicking your religion in the ass.

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