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"Like Beck said, how come we stopped evolving?" If evolution doesn't happen, how come we need a new flu vaccine every year? If evolution doesn't happen, how come bacteria are now resistant to almost all types of penicillin, to the point we are in very real danger of "super bug" forms of e coli and strep? Furthermore, if evolution did not exist, there would not have been the "white" mutation that allowed African humans to move north and supercede the Neanderthals 30 or 40,000 years ago. Nor the lactose tolerance mutation that allowed middle easterners to move into central Europe with their cows and highly nutritious milk and suplant the non lactose tolerant population that was there before 6 to 9,000 years ago. Furthermore, if Mr. Beck doesn't know it is because he hasn't looked. Just like I don't know Swahili, because I have never studied it. Doesn't mean that Swahili doesn't exist. A very interesting book that illustrates evolution in action, not over thousands of years, and not in microscopic organisms, is "The Beak of the Finch" by Jonathan Weiner. He has been doing detailed population studies of various finch (bird) populations over a 20 or 30 year period and documenting active evolution among them.

gleeaikin: " If evolution doesn't happen, how come we need a new flu vaccine every year?"

glee, a great post, but you need to learn the use of punctuation.
Might I suggest:

Use the < p> to make a new paragraph.
Use the < br> to start a new line.

Makes your ideas easier to read. ;-)

>If evolution doesn’t happen, how come bacteria are now resistant to almost all types of penicillin, to the point we are in very real danger of “super bug” forms of e coli and strep?

Ah, and here’s something interesting: medics are finding out that these “superbugs” tend to be susceptible to ‘inferior’ antibiotics which the “normal” variety of the bacteria.

>Nor the lactose tolerance mutation that allowed middle easterners to move into central Europe with their cows and highly nutritious milk and suplant the non lactose tolerant population that was there before 6 to 9,000 years ago.

So, the equivalent is that if Americans with their superior farming techniques moved to some war-torn African state and displaced/supplanted the local population because we weren’t starving to death [and we had the will/means to protect ourselves] that would be proof of evolution?