I started reading Greenfield’s section on transplant. It starts with a 30 page chapter on transplant immunology.
It’s taking me about five minutes to read each page.
This is going to take a long time.
(There are the occasional hilarious comments, such as “Presumably, these multiple V region families arose by an evolutionary process of gene duplication followed by mutation of individual family members. . . the combinatorial possibilities are extremely large, showing why the immune system is able to generate antibodies for virtually all known antigenic determinants.” So they write this long chapter to explain how little they understand these cellular processes, but how miraculously well they turn out – the human immune system works against virtually every virus and bacteria – and conclude that it’s all a matter of random chance. No possibility that an intelligent Designer arranged everything that way on purpose.)
I’m still only two pages in.
Hopefully this will go faster when I get to the clinically relevant sections. . . fifty pages away.
Cut On The Dotted Line 
August 29, 2008 at 7:12 am
I don’t buy that Evolution Crap either, Alice. Always pissed me off in school when they’d push that commie crap, wasting precious class time that could have been used on differential equations or Shakespeare.