With the debut of an antibiotic-resistant “superbug” in the U.S., scientists and citizens have an alarming problem on their hands. Evolutionists, on the other, have a mascot. On a new episode of ID Inquiry, biologist Ann Gauger responds to a question from a reader: Doesn’t the bug’s very existence prove that evolution is a “fact”?
Dr. Gauger talks with the Center for Science & Culture’s Robert Crowther about whether E. coli bacteria resistant to colistin, the antibiotic of last resort, may fairly be extrapolated outward to confirm the potency of Darwinian processes in shaping all kinds of biological novelties.
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From the Washington Post:
Colistin is widely used in Chinese livestock, and this probably led bacteria to evolve and gain a resistance to the drug. The gene probably leaped from livestock to human microbes through food, said Yohei Doi, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of Pittsburgh who has studied the problem.
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