Evolution, Science & Religion (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, June 23, 2012, 03:52 (4325 days ago) @ romansh


> And like you (sort of) point to at the end of your post. Even if knew beforehand of the possibility antibiotic strains we would have developed the very same antibiotics to help save people's lives. We would have been a lot more cautious of their widespread use though.-The really horrible bugs and the resistence are in the hospitals, where surgeons routinely gave antibiotics just to make sure everything stayed sterile. That was in my time. I hope they are not doing that now. How about the Tetracycline given to cattle to help them grow faster into the butcher shop faster? Some of this stuff involved dollar signs. The companies are running out of bacteria- lethal fungi to find new antibiotics. Things like penicillin, Streptomycin were naturally occurring antibiotics, but there are othr ways to screw up a bacterium. Mess up their outer membrane for example. That kind of research will always go on, and with folks like Shapiro around there will be great success.