What proof do evolutionists have that bacteria or viruses evolve?
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Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important topics that a beginning biology student going into medicine should learn and understand. Antibiotic resistance is one of the so-called facts of “evolution.” In this section, we will see that it is indeed a “fact” of change, but not one of real evolution (i.e., neo-Darwinian evolution). Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most serious problems to confront modern scientists. The first known antibiotics were produced by fungi, notably those from the mold Penicillium chrysogenum (see chapter 5 on fungi). An antibiotic is a substance produced by a microbe that, in small amounts, inhibits another microbe. However, today most antibiotics are produced by bacteria (esp. Streptomyces), not molds. Antibiotics have become the miracle drugs of the 20th century and have greatly reduced infectious disease and lengthened the life of man.