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banjosareunderrated Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 02:09 AM
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Honest question about evolution.. Bacteria vs. Penicillin
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No claims, no flames....Honest question for those in the know: how do strains of bacteria become immune to antibiotics without evolution? I've accepted the idea that in a population of billions of bacteria, only those few that are immune to penicillin would be left to propagate. That population would then be the target of amoxycillin, zithromax, etc.

Is this a fair argument for natural selection or not? If not, why?

thx.
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