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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

This seems more like a cracker jack box science degree holder.

The spread of resisting bacteria is beause the non-resistent ones are dead and thus not around to spread their dna like the resistant dna.

This gobldy gook is basically trying to rehash the "spontaneous generation" pseudo science of the pre evolution era. (see the maggot experiments etc.)

It is "survival of the fittest" not the spontaneous appearance of the fittest.


4 posted on 03/28/2006 2:45:51 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: longtermmemmory

It's a real degree if this site is to be believed:

http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/anderson-k.html

...which doesn't make his science one bit better.


8 posted on 03/28/2006 3:00:19 PM PST by From many - one.
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To: longtermmemmory
"It is "survival of the fittest" not the spontaneous appearance of the fittest."

I think that's the whole point of the article. Evolution implies both the spontaneous appearance of beneficial mutations, thus spontaneous appearance of the fitness as well as survival of the fittest.

But we don't see spontaneous appearance of beneficial mutations except when the mutation results in a loss of functionality and that loss of functionality is somehow beneficial as in the case of sickle cell anemia.

Bacterial resistance has been offered as spontaneous appearance of beneficial mutations. But this article examines that and rejects bacterial resistance as being the result of a beneficial mutation except for loss of functionality.

10 posted on 03/28/2006 3:01:37 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: longtermmemmory

Yep. Two words: Intellectual dishonesty.


11 posted on 03/28/2006 3:02:47 PM PST by HassanBenSobar (Islam is the opiate of the people)
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To: longtermmemmory
The spread of resisting bacteria is beause the non-resistent ones are dead and thus not around to spread their dna like the resistant dna.

Not entirely, because bacteria can exchange plasmids in a way that would confer resistance to a bacterium that prior to receiving the plasmid would have succumbed to a given antimicrobial.

That having been said, bacterial resistance is not an example of evolution as the bacterium in question is not only still a bacterium, it is still the same sort of bacterium. You don't see Staph morph into Myco, or Strep into Hemophilus - much less seeing them change into Eukaryotic cells.
59 posted on 03/28/2006 9:13:10 PM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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