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Author Topic:   Humans are losing.
Wepwawet
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Message 3 of 58 (308316)
05-01-2006 8:06 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Douglass
05-01-2006 7:01 PM


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We're losing our arms race with our only predator. By misusing antibiotics, diseases are evolving and becoming immune.
Humans managed to make it through all but the last 66 years without antibiotics. Are we making stronger disease-bugs..yeah, but stronger against antibiotics, not necessarily stronger against us. We might someday look back on the final half of the 20th century as the golden age of medicine, when we had amazing drugs that could cure almost anything; then again we may look back on it with the same loathing that we use when considering bleeding and blistering.
Simply understanding the cause of infection is probably of more importance than having antibiotics which fight them. We know how to avoid infection, not just fight them when we get them.
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Basically, diseases are evolving and we're not.
You wouldn't care to support that with some evidence would you? Besides, it's well known that organisms evolve faster in a hostile environment and you gotta admit that antibiotics make for a really hostile environment.
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It's cool if you have faith in creationism, but the fact of Evolution and the idea that we're "not playing" (because our environment is too clean) could be the end of our species.
So good hygiene is bad for us because it stops evolution? So tell me, are bacteria the only things that cause environmental pressure? What about viruses? We still haven't figured those nasty little buggers out and they mutate just as fast...why haven't they killed us while we've been standing on the highway o' evolution staring at the oncoming headlights like Kirstie Allie eyeing a slice of cheesecake?
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I apologize for being dramatic.
I have more tolerance for drama when it comes with supporting facts.

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