[Dark Knight]

>>I'm presuming you mean evolution here. A NS prediction will be that any new antiobiotic will eventually result in a mutant population of bacteria resistant to the antibiotic.<<

Only if antibiotics use the techniques we currently use. A rather dumb assumption, doncha think? Targeted DNA antibiotics will be the rage, if I read ScienceDaily enough. We will even be able to exploit new pathways to kill them.

So you now have an argument that NS can be killed by Intelligent Design, in non evolutionary ways because...

DK

[Right Wing Professor]

Targeted DNA antibiotics will be the rage, if I read ScienceDaily enough. We will even be able to exploit new pathways to kill them.

You asked for my prediction. I made a prediction. It's not predicated on the assumption that antibiotics will always work the same way they currently do, so the 'rather dumb assumption' is dumb on your part, not mine.

Given selective pressure, resistance will evolve.

So you now have an argument that NS can be killed by Intelligent Design, in non evolutionary ways because..

We've been intelligently designing antibiotics for a long time. Most of the variant penicillins are a result of intelligently designed chemical modification of the basic molecule. Resistance evolved, nonetheless.