How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics
I found this great article from
"howstuffworks.com" on how bacteria become resistant to
Antibiotics . I thought you might be interested.
Note that nowhere does the word
evolution occur. Bacteria only use
biological processes and then survival of the fittest takes care of the rest.
But hang on a minute isn't "suvival of the fittest" evolution? No - Survival of the fittest isn't a rule, or mechanism, rather it is a tautological statement about which organisms survive over time. Consider this - how do we define "fittest"? Fittest = most able to survive. So Survival of the fittest is actually
"Survival of those most able to survive". A tautology.
Basically some bacteria aquire resistance, and since you kill of those which aren't resistant, you are left with only the resistant strain which proliferate since they no longer have to compete with the non-resistant bacteria. This is nothing to do with Darwins theory of evolution. Survivability is a biological notion, which becuase of the ubiquitous nature of the theory of evolution is seen as akin to Darwinism. It isn't.
JV.