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.
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?
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.
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.
Scientists were surprised to find that DNA was still intact after a supposed 250 million years.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important topics that a beginning biology student going into medicine should learn and understand.
When a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria struck Germany in the spring, a fearful media buzz began.
Actually, antibiotic resistance is not evolving.
Highly virulent strain of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli continues to wreak havoc.
As with virtually every observation of “evolution” reported, this study does nothing to support or advance the Darwinian view of common ancestry—that from a single, simple life-form, all the complex and diversified life-forms arose.
We all have bacteria both on and in our bodies that, among other things, help us to digest food. But is this evidence for evolution?
A new strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has arrived in America from travelers to South Asia.
According to one scientist, it’s “one of the best demonstrations of evolution ever carried out in a laboratory.” So just what is it, and is he right?
Recent experiments on E. coli in a laboratory have made one university student wonder if evolution happened in front of him. Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., helps him examine more closely.
New research into how microbial resistance to antibiotics comes about sheds light on the process that is frequently called “evolution.” Will creationists have to change their tune?
Can more research into “evolutionary medicine” result in saved lives?
Can non-life evolve? Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered that infectious protein particles called prions can adapt to new environments and compete with one another.
Pathogenic resistance to antibiotics is a textbook example of “direct evidence for evolution”—literally. What does recent work on the topic suggest?
In her final installment discussing a recent conference on medicine and Darwin, Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., reveals how confused one presenter was about natural selection and evolution.
Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most commonly claimed evidences for evolution. So will the new “clue” to its workings be evidence for evolution as well?
Methicillin-resistant Staph bacteria cause more deaths than AIDS and resist most antibiotics. How do “superbugs” fit within a creation framework?
PDF DownloadEvolutionists often cite antibiotic resistance in bacteria as evidence for “evolution in action.”
An “evolving” virus is in the news again—but this time, skunks and foxes are at the center, not swine.
Swine flu—both the virus itself and the associated paranoia—seems to be sweeping the world. Is it evolution in action?
Ooh! Live evolution! Could it really be!?
One of the most common evidences used in textbooks to support evolution is antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
The issue of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is growing. But creation research could help reveal new ways to deal with this problem—and challenge Darwinism in the process.
PDF DownloadHas E. coli evolved in front of our very eyes? A recent report in New Scientist claims that it has—and is a poke in the eye for creationists.
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