Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The invalidity of the claim that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is evidenceof evolution

Darwinists generally attempt to use the antibiotic resistance of
bacteria as a so-called evidence of evolution. The fact is, however,
that this attribute contributes no evolutionto these life forms, but
actually demolishes the theory of evolution as proof of Creation. The
genes in bacteria that are resistant to certain antibiotics have
existed long before those antibiotics were ever manufactured. This
fact is expressed as follows inScientific American:
Many bacteria possessedresistance genes even before commercial
antibiotics came into use.Scientists do not know exactly why these
genes evolved and weremaintained.1
The journalMedical Tribune announcedthat following research in 1986 it
was established that bacteria widespread in the 19th century already
carried resistance to antibiotics produced in the 20th century.
Although it is a known scientific fact that such resistant
characteristics existed in many types of bacteria before the discovery
of penicillin, the attribute of resistance in bacteria is still
portrayed as an evolutionary development, but this is a claim made
solely for deceptive purposes.The extraordinary way that bacteria
develop resistance to antibiotics that have yet to be developed is
important evidence of the perfection in their creation.
Some of the proofs that the antibiotic resistance of bacteria is not
evolution are as follows:
• There are countless varieties within an individual species
of bacteria. Some of these possess the genetic information that
bestows resistance to certain drugs. When bacteria are exposed to the
effect of a particular drug those lacking resistance to it die,
whileresistant bacteria surviveand are more able to multiply.
• After a given period of time, the non-resistant bacteria are
completely replaced by these rapidly multiplying resistant bacteria.
Soon after, thatsame species of bacteria becomes a colony consisting
uniquely of individuals that are resistant to the antibiotic in
question, and that antibiotic is now useless against that species of
bacteria.
• But the bacteria are still the same bacteria, the species is
still the same species. No evolution has taken place. Bacteria have
existed on Earth for 3.5 billion years and are still here as the exact
same bacteria. The claim in question is one of Darwinists' main
deceptive techniques.
1Stuart B. Levy, "The Challange of Antibiotic Resistance",Scientific
American, March 1998, p. 35

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