Watch Bacteria Evolve

29 Replies to “Watch Bacteria Evolve”

1. Frightening ! That experiment demonstrates the most likely “end of humanity” scenario. And when the Muzzies weaponize the supremely resistant bacteria … goodbye humanity.

2. They don’t want to kill all of us. Who would they enslave?

3. True … I hear they like to forcibly copulate with the Yazidi’s … they’ll have to save some infidels for sex slaves.

4. Sorry Kate, don’t believe that video for a second.
   I have been assured by a couple of regulars here that evolution has indeed stopped. On the other hand, these same characters never did bother to explain to readers here how something they deny ever existed in the first place could therefore stop. Details, details.
   On second thought, the video is probably accurate…. and most definitely scary.

5. Huge difference in the theory of evolution of the Human species over billions (of non recordable, repeatable, years), and this evidence of evolution within a species.
   This is very scientific (observable, recordable, and repeatable)

6. Uh, it began as bacteria and ended as bacteria…where’s the evolution? And why isn’t there a living line of predecessors to bacteria continuously evolving from the ooze?
   Why did it stop?

7. The redefining of evolution in this thread is laughable.

8. Looks like an NFL game from outer space… But with higher IQs

9. See, told you so.
   So, now it’s only evolution within a species that’s real. I guess that’s a start.
   One of the Regulars, you failed to get my point. Could you not tell my post was dripping with sarcasm?

10. So, now it’s only evolution within a species that’s real. I guess that’s a start.
    Yeah, they ‘evolved’ new information that was already encoded within heh
    http://www.icr.org/article/do-bacteria-evolve-resistance-antibiotics/
    In 1845, sailors on an ill-fated Arctic expedition were buried in the permafrost and remained deeply frozen until their bodies were exhumed in 1986. Preservation was so complete that six strains of nineteenth-century bacteria found dormant in the contents of the sailors’ intestines were able to be revived! When tested, these bacteria were found to possess resistance to several modern-day antibiotics, including penicillin. Such traits were obviously present prior to penicillin’s discovery, and thus could not be an evolutionary development.

11. For a minute there, I thought you were describing leftists with the article’s title.

12. Wirgout getting into shouting matches, this was very educational, Shirley?

13. Hee. And where did penicillium mold come from?!?
    It has been around for a looooong time.

14. European borders come to mind.
    I’m

15. FINALLY!!! Hillary’s lineage explained!

16. Not really evolution, it is just selective breeding for resistance to a certain antibiotic. I hope this was just a demonstration of a known antibiotic resistance case.

17. Heh, correlation is not causation. Makes for a good story, though. What evolutionists are best at…

18. So they don’t mention the antibiotic.
    Immediately I’m thinking Cipro because, well it’s cheap, crappy, and typically prescribed at a dose high enough to stop…. nothing.
    http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/09/a-cinematic-approach-to-drug-resistance/
    Bingo.
    While they are busy pulling triclosan off the shelves for no reason what so ever:
    http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/02/492394717/fda-bans-19-chemicals-used-in-antibacterial-soaps
    One must realize that evolution requires a survivable medium, and the logic that is employed regarding the “overuse” of antibiotics and anti microbials as the reason we are seeing more “super-bugs” actually allows higher survival of less resistant forms. These forms ultimately genetically diversify in a myriad of non man made environmental threats or in man himself absent appropriate intervention.
    In a sense, “super bugs” are the AGW of the epidemiological world. The theories politically driven, and results far more devastating.
    What this video brilliantly depicts, is the result of under treatment (low dose, low thru, poor penetration, cycle too short, defeated by other medications), persistent ineffective treatment (aka cipro or other inappropriate choice) and a filthy environment (represented by the first untreated band, a world without triclosan or bleach ).
    In fact they have demonstrated why hospitals breed super bugs: Poor choices, under-treatment, and filth.
    “This is a stunning demonstration of how quickly microbes evolve,”
    Indeed, when you refuse to kill them.
    Hmmm, reminds me of another problem…

19. https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/antibiotics-less-is-more/
    So, when you go to your doctor for antibiotics, what happens? A typical prescription is ‘Take amoxicillin 500 mg three times a day for 14 days’ The question is this. How does the doctor know how long you should take antibiotics for? You might imagine that there are all sorts of studies that have compared short duration and long duration antibiotics. You would also be wrong.
    Mostly, doctors follow an eminence based medicine standard. That is, somebody made up a regimen 14 days and that’s why they gave you 14 days. There are, in fact, virtually no studies to guide the proper length of treatment. It’s basically the WAG method (wild-assed-guessing). Most of medicine follows the WAG methodology, although doctors will try to convince you otherwise. It is standard to treat infections in 7 day increments – 7 days or 14 days. Why? Because somebody said so.

20. Here is the best definition of evolution:
    Given enough monkeys and enough typewriters and enough time, eventually all of the great books in the world would be written.

21. Sorry David, that is exactly the opposite of the definition of evolution.
    There is no wild randomness to natural selection, it is only the best adapted to their habitat that thrive and continue.
    You may deny it if you want, but please don’t misrepresent it.

22. When I saw ‘watch bacteria evolve’ I though it was going to be a parliamentary session …. turns our it was much more interesting clip.

23. “Uh, it began as bacteria and ended as bacteria…where’s the evolution?”
    Dude. Really? Now you’re just being a d1ck.

24. Forget lefties; let’s try terrorists.
    The first line of defence works great, until it doesn’t. Then, it’s overrun up to the next line, which works until it doesn’t. Etc.
    Restrictive immigration policy used to be the first line; it’s gone now. Then, “strict vetting” was the rule; it doesn’t work anymore either.
    As events in NYC, NJ, and MN showed over the last few days, the clandestine profiling that government does may help them catch suspects quickly, but unusually in this case, the guy didn’t want to die. However, it’s clear that we have to find more ways to detect and deter, as they overwhelmed the 10x barrier now, and knocking on the 100. All our current policies do is breed smarter terrorists!

25. I would maintain that you don’t understand what exactly is being proposed in evolutionary theory. While Stradivarious comes at it from a religious perspective, that doesn’t make him wrong when he asks where are the intermediate forms.
    Evolution theory works just fine as long as you keep to Darwin’s “Origin of Species” by natural selection. But to jump from species to an entirely new form is a pretty broad jump. And that is precisely why my whimsical analogy is very appropriate.
    Answer if you want but I won’t reply. I leave it to others to argue because it’s philosophical and that quickly becomes a tedious discussion.

26. While Stradivarious comes at it from a religious perspective…
    No, I come at it from a Christian and logical perspective. Christianity is reality, not a religion.
    And there should just be intermediate fossil forms, there should be living intermediate forms, or prove why it stopped. And not with some story made up from imagination.

27. “No, I come at it from a Christian and logical perspective. Christianity is reality, not a religion.”
    I think it’s more “what can I say that will hack off all these people I don’t like,” Right?

28. “All our current policies do is breed smarter terrorists!”
    Respectfully disagree sir. I see no evidence of them getting any smarter. Still dumber than a bag of hammers. More numerous is what they’re getting.
    When they start dying in their myriads, that’s when the pressure comes on to make them smarter. That’s when we might have to work a bit.

29. I think it’s more “what can I say that will hack off all these people I don’t like,” Right?
    Or, maybe get them to thinking the world might not be quite how they’ve been taught by their ‘betters’. People are mostly like cattle, take the easiest path. Ever followed a cow trail? Easiest way to climb a hill. Works for cows, not always the best in all applications.
    There are four hidden dynasties:
    religion
    economics
    education
    politics
    Both the right and left have been taken over by all of them. It’s like those Russian dolls, intrigue within intrigue. Read Deut. 28