Some pests and bacteria survive chemical spraying and antibiotics. Is that evolution?
Pests and germs do not evolve resistance to poisons and antibiotics!
Some plant and animal pests, and some bacteria,
survive chemicals and antibiotics that are used to kill them.
For example, when penicillin came into wide use during the Second World War, it got a reputation for being a powerful medicine that killed bacteria or prevented their growth.
But within four years of drug companies mass-producing penicillin, some microbes were identified as being resistant to it.
New challenges
So other antibacterial agents had to be developed. A few decades later, bacteria had been found that could resist all the antibiotic drugs available.
Isn't this evolution on a tiny time-scale? Many evolutionists think it is. We think it isn't.
As a general rule, the only bacteria or pests that survive are those that are already resistant to the chemicals. The resistance or immunity doesn't evolve over time — it is already present.
The resistant strains then produce offspring with the same genetic resistance until the only ones living are those that have resistance. The pests with no genetic resistance will have died.
Some germs may become resistant through mutation, but there is no evidence of an increase in genetic information, which is what evolution requires if molecules-to-man evolution has taken place. [For a discussion on mutations in antibiotic resistance, see the Creation Research Society Quarterly article, “Is Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics an Appropriate Example of Evolutionary Change?”, by Kevin L. Anderson.]
No evolution required
In
each case no evolution is involved. This is
because most do die (no evolution there!) and the
survivors had resistance to the toxin in the first place (no
evolution there either!). The pests cannot develop resistance if
they are dead. And if they don't die they obviously have the
resistance already — it didn't evolve.
This is why new chemicals and new anti-bacterial substances constantly have to be developed, and why supergerms are breeding in our hospitals. The resistant ones are the only ones left to breed, so before long all the living pests are resistant.
If evolution were the factor that caused immunity there would have to be an increase in genetic information. But the genes do not evolve new information.
No evolution is involved in this survival process, because the pests are either resistant or not. Those that are resistant will have offspring that will also be resistant, and a new chemical will have to be found to get rid of them.
Top photo: One of the Superbugs, Clostridium difficile. Some antibiotics allow the bug to thrive in humans, causing severe diarrhoea and possibly severe inflammation of the bowel which can be life threatening. According to Times Online on February 28, 2008, between 2005 and 2006 the number of death certificates in England and Wales that mentioned the infection rose by 72 per cent to 6,480.
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