Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli

Highly virulent strain of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli continues to wreak havoc. Bacterial strains do not have to “evolve” resistance to antibiotics; they just have to survive when their non-resistant neighbors get killed off.

Evolving Bacteria

Antibiotic resistance has long been a problem. Pathogens resistant to antibiotics survive and take over, causing many difficult-to-treat infections. Many claim that antibiotic resistance is the observable proof of evolution. But are bacteria really evolving?

Bacteria Used in Textbooks to Prove Evolution

Public school textbooks claim that bacteria’s sophisticated capacity to change—which appears to be built into their systems—supports the claim that molecules can change into completely different kinds of creatures—despite the fact that these changes require the addition of completely different kinds of genetic information.

Claim of Mimicking Evolution in the Lab

The ability to predict how bacteria will respond to new drugs is exciting science, but to say scientists are “predicting evolutionary potential” is sadly misleading. The ability of bacteria to survive in hostile environments points to pre-existing information and mechanisms that God put in the genes of bacteria in the first place.

Articles About Antibiotic Resistance

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Magazine Article
Antibiotic Resistance of Bacteria: An Example of Evolution in Action?

Sept. 19, 2007 from Answers Magazine
Antibiotic resistance of bacteria is not an example of evolution in action but rather variation within a bacterial kind. It is also a testimony to the wonderful design God gave bacteria.
The "Arms Race" of Bacteria

July 21, 2007
Researchers at Cornell University’s Boyce Thompson Institute have been studying how the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae “infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant’s cells and undermines the plant’s defense system.”
Magazine Department Article
Bacteria Back Creation

July 16, 2007 from Answers Magazine
Scientists have discovered the number of genes necessary to make what is believed to be the simplest living thing: a bacterium.
Accidental Survival

June 23, 2007
Influenza virus strain "develops" resistance to drugs preemptively.
Bacteria: More Good than Bad and Ugly

June 16, 2007
Only 10% of bacteria are “bad” or pathogenic (disease-causing) while the other 90% are “good,” non-pathogenic, and necessary components for human life.
Super-Adaptable Bacteria?

June 9, 2007
A discussion of evolution compared with selection, as it relates to bacterial resistance.
Observation of Evolution in Bacteria

Jan. 31, 2007
Scientists have reported observing the evolution of Escherichia coli bacteria in a matter of days. What did they really see?
Technical In-Depth Article
Genetic Variance of Influenza Type A Avian Virus and its Evolutionary Implications

May 17, 2006 from Answers in Depth
Are the mechanisms avian influenza utilizes to propagate and evade annihilation considered evolution?
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Virus “Evolution” Benefits Mankind?

Feb. 22, 2006
Scientists have supposedly forced the evolution of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) commonly used in gene therapy. However, a belief in evolution/millions of years is not needed to initiate this resear
“Doonesbury” Needs Some Resistance

Dec. 20, 2005
Sunday’s “Doonesbury” editorial comic strip in US papers once again ventured into the creation/evolution debate
Evolution and Medicine

Nov. 22, 2005
Not one example can be put forth of the need for evolution (or belief in its tenets) in order to practice modern medicine.
Don’t Be “Resistant” (About Writing Your Own Letter to the Editor)

July 12, 2005
We are showing you a letter to the editor that appeared in one of AiG-US’s hometown newspapers, The Cincinnati Post.
The “Bird Flu” and Evolution

Feb. 16, 2004
At the time of writing (February 2004), a deadly respiratory “flu” is racing with unprecedented speed through fowl populations in Asia and other parts of the world.
Biologists Mimic Evolution in the Lab?

April 8, 2002
A specialist in ‘molecular evolution’ says that he has successfully mimicked natural evolution in his laboratory.
What is Evolution? Letters to the Editor Miss the Point!

April 5, 2002
You’ve probably come across the expression ‘molecules-to-man’ evolution, or ‘goo-to-you’ evolution, or some similar expression.
University Becomes a Hotbed of Anti-Creationism!

Dec. 14, 1999
Professors at the University of Kentucky in Lexington—only about 70 miles south of AiG’s headquarters near Cincinnati—have been increasingly vocal in their opposition to creationist beliefs
Magazine Article
Evolution Under (or Wool Over?) Our Eyes

June 1, 1994, pp. 41–42
Dr John R. Howitt, a personal friend of mine ... wrote to appropriate professors in nine leading universities, asking, “Do you consider that the Hebrew word yom (day), as used in Genesis 1...