why? because we all have adaptive genomes. Your theory says that if there were a million people in the population, one lucky person would sport, by chance, antibiotic resistance. In reality, if each person took a few rounds of antibiotics, they would ALL develop resistance. No evolution; just individual adaptation.
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...just individual adaptation.
...which is then passed on to the next generation. If the adaptation is one that allows those creatures a better chance of survival in their environment, then their offspring will most likely be more numerous than those who don't have it. Do I really need to go on with this for "X" more generations?
How can you not see this?
Why is it that they take a near-understanding of evolution, then redefine evolution so that it doesn't fit their very own near-understanding of it? He almost had it. The BACTERIA get resistant to the antibiotic, not the people. Holy fuck.
Your theory says that if there were a million people in the population, one lucky person would sport, by chance, antibiotic resistance.
No, our theory says that if there were a trillion bacteria in the population, a couple of thousand lucky bacteria would sport, by chance, antibiotic resistance. When all the others are killed off, the lucky ones multiply and the new trillion - descendants of the lucky couple of thousand - would inherit antibiotic resistance. Also, studies have shown that when bacteria are stressed and near death, their genome becomes more prone to mutation during cell division, which increases the chance that a lucky couple of thousand will develop antibiotic resistance.
Even hard-core creationists accept this principle - they just call it "micro-evolution" and claim it doesn't prove the ToE. At least don't be stupider than Kent Hovind.
Actually...
At the moment, I am reading a book called, "I was Dr. Mengele's Assistant" by Milkos Nyiszli. Its the story of a Jewish man who was forced to become his assistant (or die in the crematoriums)
One of the people he mentions is a woman who showed immunity to Zyklon B...
They gassed her twice and both times she lived (albeit in much agony but she would have recovered, So they shot her instead).
Its the same in bacteria, except there are a lot more of them in a sinlge individual than there are us on the planet. So their evolution is often very rapid particularly since they clone each other rapidly. Had she survived, there would have been a group of humans who showed immunity to the poison gas. However it was not to be.
No, the bacteria develop resistance. This does not make the person it happens to lucky, it means they have an incurable (if there's no other antibiotics) infection.
And you know why I have a block on this shit?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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