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To: cookcounty

So this bacteria “de-evolved” into the highly useful trait of antibiotic resistance?

Please note my first post on this thread - I mentioned the idiotic premise that all change will be maladaptive - “all change will make an organism less fit as it changes it away from the way God created it”.

Obviously that premise doesn’t withstand even a cursory examination of the evidence.


58 posted on 12/04/2012 8:29:23 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream
"“all change will make an organism less fit as it changes it away from the way God created it”.

Not sure that all creationists agree completely with that with that formulation (Note: I am more of an IDer than a creationist).

The problem is the ill-defined buzz-word "fit." The question has to be asked "fit for what?" For example, in sickle-cell anemia, the E-volutionist would definitely affirm humans are more "fit"(defined as survivability) when blessed with sickle-cell because it grants survivability in a malarial environment and therefore the prospect of progeny. Creationists might have a more nuanced understanding of "fit," if they bother to define it at all.

Would a world in which highly-adapted bacteria destroy all mammalian life be a more "fit" world? Some would say "yes." Others, "no." Others would say "define fitness."

66 posted on 12/04/2012 8:55:48 AM PST by cookcounty ("For the first time in my adult life I am not proud of my country.")
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