What is a virus's purpose that benefits the whole world?

Answer 1

Science is just beginning to scratch the surface when it comes to understanding the role of viruses as it relates to life, health, and disease.

It is well known that some viruses, by their nature are pathogens, and harmful to organisms. They need to infect living cells to survive and multiply often killing the cell in the process. Not all viruses infect humans, most target other animals, plants and even bacteria.

Darwinists, accidentalists, and natural selectionists believe that viruses played an important role in evolution, when all life was single celled. Viruses manipulate and replicate DNA to survive. During the course of infection viruses have accidentally caused changes in organisms DNA sequence that caused mutations, some of these mutations would have been useful to the cell and so would help evolutionary progress. They also helped to spread these new sequences to different organisms and so added to the diversity of our gene pool. Even today humans have viral DNA left in our genes as part of our junk DNA.

A benefit that viruses can provide nowadays is to help doctors cure illnesses using gene therapy. Many illnesses are caused by faulty genes. In gene therapy doctors load a virus with a good copy of the gene so that the virus can inject this copy into faulty cells and make them work again. This technique could potentially save millions of lives.

It was once thought that all bacteria were harmful. Today we know that without bacteria we would be unable to digest our food and that some bacteria have a symbionic relationship with cells and carry needed nourishment to cells. We know that the vast majority of bacteria are "good bacteria." In the future we will no doubt discover the important role that bacteria and viruses play in relation to life, health, and disease.

Answer 2

Viruses exist purely to propagate and survive.

If you mean specifically from a biblical point of view, then anything which harms is a by-product of the fall, when man chose to give control of the earth to Satan rather than to God.

Answer 3

Motives behind creating and proliferating a computer virus are as varied as the individuals who create them.

Quite often an attack will be created and distributed in retaliation for a perceived injustice on the part of the "hacker". I've read accounts of individuals opposing the content of a website or the level of customer service they received from a provider of a good or service leading to a retaliatory strike against said provider. These types of infections are indirect attacks on a company's website intended to reduce web traffic and sales by infecting the customers' or potential customers' systems which often leads to the customer's inability to access the site in question or use the services offered.

Other viruses are attempts to steal information from target systems such as passwords and critical banking and financial information. The risks of these types of viruses are self explanatory. Others seek to siphon off system resources from the infected system to be used by the hacker in order to execute operations that require large amounts of computing ability. Still others allow the hacker to use your computer, network connection and IP address to do things he/she does not want traced back to them self.