Is it possible for a person to disbelieve evolution and yet still believe in antibiotics?

Question

Or are Creationists unable to see the connection? If there were no evolution, why would we need new antibiotics?

4 answers in 14 minutes, and all from people who can actually think clearly! My faith in humankind is restored!

Almost.

Answer 1

Ah, the self-centered fickleness and hypocrisy of humans! Of course, reason ought to prevail when one considers the connection between evolution and antibiotics. Upon close examination, however, one can see how the Creationist's fickleness and hypocrisy is actually an evolutionary advantage. By choosing those points of view that best suit their perceived needs, the individual creates a greater surety of his/her survival and likelihood of offspring. A purely reasoned individual may not enjoy such an advantage. Being reasoned, he would take into account the resources available and consider it prudent to limit the number of his offspring. It does bring up the disturbing possibility that reasoned folk may not be long for this world.

However, there is a sweet irony to all this. By using the adaptations of being self-centered, fickle and hypocritical, the creationist is actually supporting evolutionary theory.

Answer 2

Bacteria reproduce so rapidly that the chance of mutation is much higher than in higher orders. The mutation only becomes beneficial due to an artificial condition (antibiotics). If left alone, the mutation would probably remain a relatively small part of the overall population. Imagine a disease that only killed people with red hair. It's a genetic trait, but doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else is a different species.

Answer 3

Believing in anti-biotics is completely different from believing that life spontaneously arose out of random floating amino acids, random nucleotides randomly assembling themselves (keep in mind that in order for the D.N.A. not to be broken down in chemical reactions it must be alive. Therefore all the enzymes integral to life would have to be coded on the spot. The odds of that are 1 out of 10^40,000, or more than the cube root of a googol.) and JUST SO HAPPENING to run into a microsphere of phosphlipids. Methinks that the mircoevolution to resist anti-biotics isn't really on the same scale as dis-believing in evolution. Remember: creating a new species is still on the evolutionlist's to-do list, and developing anti-biotic resistance isn't really trans-mutation a sponge into a sea cucumber, or a money into a man (if the "missing link" between money and man is so fit {after all, it would be smarter than a monkey}, then why is it dead and the monkey alive?).

Answer 4

The issue is a question of cause and effect. Are there changes to the virus' and bacteria cuased by the presence of antibiotics and therefore would not evolve without out interference, or would they evolve regardless. No matter which way you believe, you can easily seperate the two discussions logically, and therefore believe in a seamingly contradictory set of conditions.

Answer 5

Yeah. Once you believe in Creation, GOD CREATED ANTIBIOTICS TOO. Antibiotics is not the proof of evolution. But some of the controversial matters like this forced the creationist to change it to intelligent design. Later they will call it continued intelligent design. Keep on going Their arguments will merge with evolution.

Answer 6

Good point.
I for one invte them to travel to Asia and walk around all of the chicken farms they can. And then come back and say that evolution doesn't happen. (H5N1 is proof positive of evolution).
But they cling to thier outdated and irrelevant book of bronze-age jewish mythology as if it were based in anything other than mythology and fantasy.
It staggers the imagination.

Answer 7

I completely agree with you.

and with the fact that they toss their so called beliefs aside when they actually need medicine.

But a question for you??? If we keep taking antibiotic's... won't we eventually evolve into being able to fend off the infections ourselves?

Answer 8

I give you a nice thought , if we could have stopped evoultion with an antibiotic injection you would not be asking these silly questions

Answer 9

Well, I suppose if you can believe in George W. Bush and balancing the budget at the same time, anything's possible.

Answer 10

Sure they can..principles can be cast aside when you have a raging infection.....