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To: Olog-hai

Seriously? You’re going to have a steep uphill battle to convince me of that, much less the thousands of other medical researchers who routinely use evolutionary principle to inform their research.

If it weren’t for evolution driving the constant change of microorganisms (and insects, rodents, etc.), we’d have wiped out infectious disease eons ago, and true “organic” agriculture would be the only agriculture we know, since pests would have been wiped out. But evolution, through the pressures of genetic selection, causes those nasty organisms to survive despite our best efforts to wipe them out.

I don’t suppose you are aware of the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria? How do you think they became resistant? Answer: they evolved resistance. And through other evolutionary processes, they shared those resistance mechanisms even with unrelated bacteria.

As I said, trying to conduct medical research while avoiding any use of evolutionary theory would be as futile as trying to conduct chemical research without any use of atomic theory. You can’t do research without understanding the fundamental laws and processes.


40 posted on 01/30/2016 8:56:39 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://wEven thouww.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

I’m sorry you insist on clinging to your indoctrination so tightly. You are letting the Marxists win, as well as using elements of their anti-religious propaganda. And FTR, comparing evolutionary theory with atomic theory is comparing apples and oranges; atomic nuclei have been seen using electron microscopes.

Changes in microorganisms is not evolutionary, if indeed the change is in the microorganism to begin with and not in the people they infect. Do antibiotic-resistant bacteria change into different species or do they stay the same species? The latter.


43 posted on 01/30/2016 9:07:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
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