Dakota Voice: Super-Germs and Evolution

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Answers with Ken Ham

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Anonymous said...: Dr. Hamm is exactly correct. I have heard bacterial resistance used as evidence of evolution so often, it has become a staple of the Bio 101 professor. This is not true and almost any real biologist knows it. In most cases bacteria acquire resistance via a mechanism of sharing of plasmids, which are small loops of extra-genetic DNA. Occasionally a mutation may confer some resistance to a specific antibiotic, but it is always with a net loss of information and these bacteria become less able to survive in the outside world.

Corpses of arctic explores that died in the 19th century have been found frozen and samples from the tissues have found bacteria that are still viable in the laboratory. Some of this bacteria has been found resistant to all major classes of modern antibiotics, proving that resistance is information that existed long before Flemings first tentative experiments with penicillin.

Every attempt to point to a phenomenon and claim "evolution in action" turns out being simple variation within a species or genus brought about by selection. It is the same thing as dog breeders have been doing for centuries, yet a dog is still a dog.; 1/05/2008 2:23 PM