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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Antibiotic resistance and understanding it and its emergence involves evolution.

Doctors tell you to finish your antibiotic medicine because they are informed by evolutionary biology that bacteria or virus can EVOLVE resistance and are more likely to if you cut the dose while it is still alive.

Industrial enzymes are created by an evolutionary process whereby useful properties are selected for among randomly generated variation.

Evolutionary biology informs drug discovery in terms of what animal models are used, and what molecular targets are chosen.

Understanding the genome of an animal without regard to evolutionary theory is like trying to understand the geopolitical situation with absolutely no knowledge of history.

Many useful non-genetic sequences of DNA were discovered ONLY because of evolutionary comparisons that showed they were highly evolutionarily conserved between species.

I don't know what kind of science YOU do, but the science I do is informed by evolutionary theory.

Moreover, evolutionary theory has “enriched our understanding of life and being and such” to quote Pope Benedict XVI; and has DIRECT SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS as well as TESTABLE IMPLICATIONS, all of which tests confirmed the predictions of the theory.

Compared to that Creationism has not enriched anyone’s understanding in the same way, and has no scientific applications.

92 posted on 06/02/2009 6:45:36 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream
Antibiotic resistance and understanding it and its emergence involves evolution.

That's where you're wrong. "Evolution" has nothing to do with it. Antibiotic resistance has nothing to do with the entirely spurious supposition that over millions of years, fish evolved into amphibians, which evolved into reptiles, which evolved into avians and mammals.

The one (antibiotic resistance) is observable science. The other (evolution) is completely non-empirical and relies only upon unwarranted extrapolation far beyond what the data actually warrants.

93 posted on 06/02/2009 6:58:53 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: allmendream; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Doctors tell you to finish your antibiotic medicine because they are informed by evolutionary biology that bacteria or virus can EVOLVE resistance and are more likely to if you cut the dose while it is still alive.

And in the process TOTALLY missed the rise of anti-biotic resistant bacteria, which they should have been able to use the ToE to PREDICT.

But, nooooo, doctors handed them out like candy, even when they were not indicated, and then they got blindsided when the anti-biotic resistant bacteria popped up.

It wasn't until then that recommendations against the overuse of anti-biotics went into effect. The one time the ToE could have really proved its worth, and it didn't.

95 posted on 06/02/2009 8:30:25 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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