No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution

Darwinian biologist and blogger P.Z. Myers wrote a post recently in which he lamented the fact that medical researchers rarely invoke evolution in their published research, whereas evolutionary biologists routinely invoke evolution. This is of course true.

I pointed out that this is because evolutionary inferences are of no significant help to medical research. Inference to evolution is a narrative gloss on the real science in medicine. It is a point that I, along with others, have been maki...