Do fundamentalists who disbelieve in evolutionary theory also reject treatment with antiobiotics that are chemically designed to treat resistant (i.e. biologically evolved) strains of bacteria?
2007-01-06 12:28:39 · 9 answers · asked by The ~Muffin~ Man 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you mean creationists, not fundamentalists. And many of them will say "no, I believe in micro evolution, just not macro evolution"....which is also ridiculous.
Most of them will not even understand what you are talking about... like vicsikix below.
2007-01-06 12:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They really shouldn't use any other than sulfa. Why are there biological antibiotiotics? Some molds developed them as an evolutionary advantage to compete with bacteria for scarce resources.
2007-01-06 22:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you obviously dont know anything about microbiology.
The bacteria does not evolve. What they actually do is grow resistant to the antibiotics that were made to kill them.
You can compare it to a herpitologist. Most of them get bitten often by poisoness snakes and over time theri system builds a stronger resistance to venom than a regular person. Over time the venom has less and less effect of them because their body adapts to the efects of venom. Now would we as sensible people that this person has evolved and became better as a result? No we wouldnt and its trhe same with bacteria, they dont evolve they adapt, there is a difference
2007-01-06 12:40:31 · answer #3 · answered by Erni S 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics didn't evolve to become resistant. What happened, in the bacteria were the genes to be resistant to a certain antibiotics. Some bacteria retained these genes, in other bacteria, the gene was breded out. When the new antibiotic came along, the bacteria with the proper gene to fight the antibiotic survived, the others died out.
What happened wasn't a case of evolution, but a loss of information in the bacteria which couldn't fight the antibiotic.
2007-01-06 12:39:16 · answer #4 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'm not sure why you're comparing antiobiotics and evolution.
Antiobiotics are proven to be effective. But evolution has never been proven to be true.
So, why do you seem to be equating the two things?
I'm not a fundamentalist Christian. I'm a Roman Catholic one.
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2007-01-06 12:35:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
They have no idea what you're talking about. Of course, that makes them qualified to have a say in what gets taught in science class!
2007-01-06 12:32:20 · answer #6 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The new strains are no evolved. They are variations of the same species. Why do I have to keep explaining this high school stuff to you people?
2007-01-06 12:35:07 · answer #7 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. Biologically "evolved" is a whole different ball game.
2007-01-06 12:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by Red neck 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
One can only hope.
2007-01-06 12:30:45 · answer #9 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋