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To: LincolnDefender
do you concede that bacteria evolves and becomes antibiotic or drug resistant?

I certainly do, but that is not due to mutations. That is because in all species there are slight differences in the genetic makeup that make some more resistant than others. The dead produce no progeny. The ones that could not resist the drugs did not reproduce. It was the ones that were already resistant that reproduced. This can be easily ascertained by a simple example. The black plague destroyed about a 1/3 of the population of Europe within a few years. There was no time for mutations to occur while the plague was going on. The ones that survived were those that had genes which were able to resist the plague, not those who mutated.

"Second, what is your explanation for all the DNA that man has that is identical to DNA in other life forms, "

The explanation is really quite simple. Many houses are made of brick, the bricks may be the same, but the houses are not. Put it another way, all matter is made of some 100+ elements. This does not show though that man descended from water or from the air.

1,070 posted on 02/27/2002 8:54:52 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
I certainly do, but that is not due to mutations. That is because in all species there are slight differences in the genetic makeup that make some more resistant than others. The dead produce no progeny. The ones that could not resist the drugs did not reproduce. It was the ones that were already resistant that reproduced. This can be easily ascertained by a simple example. The black plague destroyed about a 1/3 of the population of Europe within a few years. There was no time for mutations to occur while the plague was going on. The ones that survived were those that had genes which were able to resist the plague, not those who mutated.

Is that what you mean by "no new information" (if you were the one who said that).

1,071 posted on 02/27/2002 11:29:24 PM PST by scripter
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To: gore3000
I certainly do, but that is not due to mutations.

The antibiotic resistant tuberculosis bacteria arose through mutation.

1,101 posted on 02/28/2002 8:13:22 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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