Diseases Disprove Theory of Evolution
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
When disease causing viruses and bacteria mutate, they become extremely resilient. For example, the AIDS virus is so successful at mutating that it consistently fools the body’s immune system, and refuses to be eradicated by cocktails representing everything science can throw at it. The result is that people continue to die from AIDS. The tenacious and highly infectious methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is, as its name reveals, resistant to the strongest antibiotics available. It is so contagious that the prefix of community-associated (CA-MRSA) has been added to it. More menacing is its cousin Necortizing Fasciitis, the flesh eating variety, that is caused by MRSA. The efficiency of Necrotizing Fasciitis to overcome its victims is measured in hours.
In what scientists term molecular evolution, the deadly effects of these bacteria can result from a mutation of a single stain that renders it drug-resistant.
The interesting aspect to these examples of mutation in the scheme evolutionary theory is that random selection is supposed to depend on such mutations to select out the fittest specimens for survival. While all appears well for these diseases at the micro level, without the intervention of intelligent human beings, forestalling as best they could the disappearance of all hosts, they would have been doomed for survival at the macro level.
By being selected to completely destroy the host, the diseases end their own existence too. This apparent setback might be explained if natural selection was counting on population figures to perpetuate the strain only to mutate advantageously later on, but this would mean that natural selection was a third-party observer, with intelligence; something that does not fit the theory of blind chance.
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