Science, Creation & EvolutionThe dangers of EvolutionUndergraduates in biology do that regularly. Our present antibiotic protocols are based on evolutionary theory. We are even working now to anticipate evolution in order to deal with antibiotic resistance by bacteria. "Future Darwin It's difficult enough to piece together the ghost of evolution past, but now Barry Hall from Rochester University has devised a model that predicts evolution in the future. Unfortunately it won't tell us whether we'll grow smarter; it's designed to forecast bacterial evolution. The model is accurate enough to show how bacteria are likely to evolve in response to a new antibiotic: the researchers can then attempt to design a drug to which bacteria are unable to evolve resistance. "It's an arms race," says Hall. "We make a drug and after a while, the bugs adapt to it, so we give them a variant of the drug. But if we can predict how they're going to get around our treatments, we can work out a way to make that route impossible for them." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Distribution/ ... 17,00.html I suppose that when scientists start demanding that textbooks have stickers denouncing creationism, that will be a reality. For the moment, the inquisition seems to be coming from the creationist community. |
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