I am stunned really. A major problem facing medicine is antibiotic resistance. Some bugs have acquired not only beneficial mutations but have evolved entire systems to evade certain drugs. Ever learn about vancomycin resistance? Please do not become one of these doctors that perscribes penicillin for the flu.
Furthermore, if you have had any experience with DNA sequence alignment and homology search programs you probably have noticed that nucleotide sequences of "ancient" genes (rRNAs, cytochromes etc) diverge exactly as evolutionary theory would predict. Is it all a huge coincidence? Can a reasonable person examine all of this data and not conclude common ancestry? What other hypothesis could possibly explain this?
I have to believe in the theory of evolution to understand bacterial resistance? Hardly! The resistance phenomenon is not that hard to understand, you give a population with an exponential growth curve a selective pressure, and watch said organism either (1) die or (2) adapt and live.
Why would I presrcibe an antibitotic for a viral dz?
Furthermore, if you have had any experience with DNA sequence alignment and homology search programs you probably have noticed that nucleotide sequences of "ancient" genes (rRNAs, cytochromes etc) diverge exactly as evolutionary theory would predict. Is it all a huge coincidence? Can a reasonable person examine all of this data and not conclude common ancestry? What other hypothesis could possibly explain this?
I don't find evolution completely irrational. Science works with what it can. No other pure scientific hypothesis can currently explain what is objective. Although as a believer in Creation, I do believe in common ancestors, only these were fully formed ancestors.