Re: Looking for more data (bacteria evolving against antibiotics)

On 10 Jan 2006 09:50:38 -0800, "Joe" <bucket.bucket@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

>I've seen this data on several creationist web sites, but can't seem to
>find any "rebuttals" from the evolution side of things.
>
>"... the example of bacteria recovered from the frozen bodies of a
>party of early Arctic explorers who died in 1845. The bacteria were
>recovered from their colons in 1988, carefully cultured and exposed to
>modern antibiotics. Many were found to be resistant to the most
>powerful modern antibiotics, proving that such resistance was present
>ahead of time and has not "evolved" as a response to new selective
>pressures." (See R. McQuire, "Eerie: human Arctic fossils yield
>resistant bacteria," Medical Tribune, 12/29/1988, pp. 1, 23.)
>
>I've searched for the original text of the article w/ no luck, and
>searched for a refute/discussion of this article on the talkorigins.org
>site and can't seem to find anything...
>
>Any input is appreciated!
>
>J

The only place I've ever seen reference to that is on anti-evolution
websites. There are a lot of references to microbes serviving many
years (see two below) bit I can find no reference to resistance.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antarctic_life_021216.html
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast01sep98_1.htm
--
Bob.

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