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These specific virus types are so machine like, I can’t help but imagine they are intelligently designed by some alien life. Everything else looks organic and kinda random because of natural selection; these fuckers look purpose built.

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Funnily enough, Steven Universe used this exact concept for some alien technology.

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Well, they’ve been evolved to serve the purpose of injecting their DNA/RNA. So of course they look like they serve that purpose? Your argument is also used by creationists to somehow squeeze their god into all of this by saying β€œthis looks too perfect, this must have been made by something external, i.e. god”…

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Ever seen other non-enveloped viruses?

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