Emily Chung reports,
The same genes that make disease-causing bacteria resistant to today’s antibiotics have been found in soil bacteria that have remained frozen since woolly mammoths roamed the Earth.
“We’ve shown for the first time that drug resistance is a really old phenomenon and it’s part of the natural ecology of the planet,” said Gerard Wright, a biochemist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
Five years ago, Wright had discovered harmless soil bacteria, Actinobacteria, that showed resistance to antibiotics (not, presumably, directed at them).
He then sought bacteria that had never been exposed to human efforts against microbes.
Geologist Duane Forese suggested taking soil samples from under a layer of volcanic ash deposited in the Yukon (far north) 30,000 years ago. They found Actinobacteria, that showed the same resistance.
Wright points out that these Actinobacteria are our usual source of the antibiotics:
“They make probably 80 per cent of the drugs that are currently used today – they also make anti-cancer agents, they make immune suppressants, they are remarkable, remarkable little chemists.”
Indeed? Well, someone is, anyway.
Actinobacteria seem to have needed, from time to time, to fend off the unfriendly advances of other bacteria. But how did their talent travel?
That antibiotic resistance likely jumped from the soil bacteria to disease-causing bacteria.
You mean, it was due to jumping genes, not Darwinian evolution?
Remember when failure to believe that Darwinian evolution is the cause of antibiotic resistence was supposed to endanger the nation’s health? Quaint.
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This ‘ancient antibiotic resistance’ in frozen bacteria has been documented before:
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Horizontal Gene Transfer is Darwinian! Darwin’s theory was that organisms vary and natural selection chooses the most fit. Darwin knew nothing of DNA or even of genes. All he knew was that organisms varied, he had no idea of what caused it.
That is a neat way of defeating evolution, though. Redefine it and then show that your definition is false. Waterloo!
dmullenix, please tell me, was it the whales who decided to ‘horizontally transfer’ the genes for echolocation to bats, or was it bats that decided to ‘horizontally transfer’ the genes for echolocation to whales?,,, and Did they use e-mail, or cell phone, to convey their need for echolocation to each other???
And dmullenix, as you well know this three card monte game of evoking wide spread horizontal gene transfer to explain why the same exact genes are in widely divergent species, does nothing to alleviate the problem, for neo-Darwinists, of explaining where the genes and proteins came from in the first place!!!,,, i.e. please tell me exactly when and where these genes and proteins for echolocation, or for anything else, first evolved;
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dmullenix, you seem to have missed the point that Darwinism is not here creating any new information, as Darwinists have claimed it could, for a century and a half, without demonstrating it. Now, we are discovering the true causes: Essentially, an existing machine is moved from one plant to another.
No new machine is created, because that is not something natural selection can do. Darwin believed it could do that, but he was wrong. Just plain wrong.
We don’t expect you to understand, because you need to believe.
dmullenix, please tell me, was it the whales who decided to ‘horizontally transfer’ the genes for echolocation to bats, or was it bats that decided to ‘horizontally transfer’ the genes for echolocation to whales?,,, and Did they use e-mail, or cell phone, to convey their need for echolocation to each other???
And dmullenix, as you well know this three card monte game of evoking wide spread horizontal gene transfer to explain why the same exact genes are in widely divergent species, does nothing to alleviate the problem, for neo-Darwinists, of explaining where the genes and proteins came from in the first place!!!,,, i.e. please tell me exactly when and where these genes and proteins for echolocation, or for anything else, first evolved;
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Wow, dmullenix, in light of our discussion over on “The ID Hypothesis” thread, do you not see how damaging this discovery is to your evolutionist beliefs?
The evidence that has been cited for evolution from bacteria turns out to be something that was pre-existing all along!
Of related note to how widespread completely unique ORFan genes are:
Also of related note to lack of any evidence for evolution for bacteria: