Antibiotic resistance is a real example of Darwinian evolution at work in nature. However, it typically entails small-scale change and a fitness cost -- the breaking of useful molecular mechanisms in a cell. It is a form of evolution, but it doesn't show significant creative evolution. So how do we fight it?
In my recent article "Does Medical Science Need Evolutionary Science?," I discussed how we fight antibiotic resistance by using intelligent design principles, namely the fact that there...
Published on May 31, 2015 05:19