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To: editor-surveyor
nothing that you mention above has the slightest connection to evolution. You are propagandising by attempting to mix evolutionism with biochemistry.

Perhaps you would care to explain how bacteria developing resistance to specific antibiotics over the course of thousands of generations is a result of "biochemistry" as opposed to natural selection?

144 posted on 01/06/2008 4:21:15 PM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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To: Bosh Flimshaw

Bacteria don’t ‘develop’ resistance, it is, and always was, present in the general bacterial population, and the continued use of antibiotics selectively breeds that particular strain to the exclusion of others. Ending all antibiotic use for a continued period would result in a return of normal demographics to the bacterial populations.


146 posted on 01/06/2008 4:26:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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