Reply #5: No and yes

[Orrex]

Dangerous, divorced-from-reality sociopaths see no...

Excuse me...

Creationists see no contradiction. A virus mutating to a human-contagious virus from an avian-contagious virus is an example of "microevolution," as they call it. It's analogous to a species of dog: a poodle and a mastiff are both dogs, so (to creationists) the two types of virus are both "flu virus." Ergo, no anti-doctrinal evolution has occurred.

That's bullshit, of course. There is no material distinction between micro- and macroevolution, and the two terms basically describe arbitrary distinctions between organisms with no immutable and clearly-defined "species line" to separate them.

But creationists, who fear and are hateful of science, like to pretend that humans are above and separate from the animal kingdom, and the way that they do this is by clinging to fantasies about macroevolution.

In short, creationists see no contradiction between accepting the mutation of a virus and rejecting the theory of evolution as a whole.