2007-03-07 12:33:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am Christian, and I do. I am a firm believer in adaptation. When an organism needs to adapt, it does. I've no difficulty believing. Now I'm not really sure how they do it, since I'm not all that fluent in biology.
2007-03-07 12:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No evolution is involved. This is because most do die (no evolution there!) and the survivors are resistant to the toxin in the first place (no evolution there either!). The critters cannot develop resistance if they are dead. And if they don't die they obviously already have the resistance, they don't evolve it.
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.
No evolution is involved in this survival process, because the pests are either resistant or not. Those that are resistant are the ones that will have offspring that will also be resistant, and a new chemical will have to be found to get rid of them.
2007-03-07 20:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by Red neck 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The life sustaining earth was lost in the flood, any thing can happen to people in this unprotected earth full of imperfections, The reason why there has got to be a new heavens and a new earth 2Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5;
2007-03-07 21:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Micro evolution is the covered in adaptation, speciation and mutation.
But they are still bacteria and viruses.
No increase in complexity, no changes in their genetic ability outside of what is already there.
Not "evolution" of a species.
2007-03-07 22:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A bacteria or virus can evolve/mutate but it remains a bacteria or virus, they don't evolve into rabbits or something.
2007-03-07 20:38:42 · answer #5 · answered by hanknowaff 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why would creationism and the ability of viruses to evolve be mutually exclusive? I don't get it.
2007-03-07 20:37:43 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do you know nobody claims to know how viruses evolved.
2007-03-07 20:39:07 · answer #7 · answered by 0 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They've decided to accede to "micro-evolution" but deny "macro-evolution". In their view, it lets them acknowledge the inescapable, like emergence of resistant bacteria, but deny that we could be "descended from apes". That, of course, is the way they like to phrase it, along with "descended from monkeys", to attack the entire concept of evolution or the theory of natural selection.
2007-03-07 20:39:59 · answer #8 · answered by Skeff 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i like the way you phrased it
this question
if they say viruses evolve then do they become evolutionists?
2007-03-07 20:37:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians don't know anything about science, that is why they make up thinks like Idiotic Design
2007-03-07 20:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋