MRSA - would you?

I often see creationists and the "ID" people complaining bitterly about lack of evolution in the world around us - you know the sort of thing. "I'll accept evolution if a chimp gives birth to a human baby". Well, that would be extraordinary, I admit, and I might even think about believing in god if it ever happened, but I digress.There are obvious evolutionary changes going on all around us, and they make front-page news. I refer, of course, to the "germs", the grubbiest of god's creatures, which, even as I type, are engaged in a genetic arms race against pharmaceutical companies, or at least their antibiotics.Probably the best-known of these is MRSA, the methicillin-resistant Staph. aureus, but there are many other examples.Now, we all know about this bacterium, but my question is this: would a creationist who was suffering from an MRSA infection insist on receiving conventional (ineffective, Biblical??) antibiotic treatment for SA, or would they accept that SA has evolved into MRSA, and go for the correct antibiotic?

Great! This process is known as "Evolution". We may be getting somewhere. Yes, I agree. But DNA sequencing proves beyond any doubt that all life on Earth does have a common ancestor. All living creatures are related to each other. Isn't that an exciting and wonderful fact?

I don't think you understand, so I'll say it again: DNA sequencing proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that all life has one common ancestor. Common ancestry IS the only way.Now that we know this extraordinary fact, there is no need to cling to a Bronze-Age hypothesis which was written in a Bronze-Age book. We have the correct explanation.

Forgive me, but which part of "proves beyond any doubt" do you not understand?You seem to be either ignoring or opposing the DNA evidence. Which?

Why don't you find out before you start typing this gibberish? Yes it is, actually!The mechanism is that an alternative penicillin binding protein (PBP2a), is produced in addition to the "normal" penicillin binding proteins. The protein is encoded by the mecA gene, and because PBP2a is not inhibited by antibiotics such as flucloxacillin the cell continues to synthesise peptidoglycan and hence has a structurally sound cell wall.Note that there is no loss of function, no loss of information. The opposite is true: the bacterium has evolved the ability to survive flucloxacillin therapy, by acquiring a new gene (extra "information"). MRSA flourishes, and is now a prominent cause of morbidity & mortality in humans.

Define "totally different". Humans separated from chimps about 6 million years ago. We had a common ancestor. I don't think we can say we are "totally different" from chimps, nor any other creatures, however, as all living things are related to one another, albeit distantly for the most part.But this thread is about one kind of "critter", Staph. aureus, becoming MRSA, which is, I guess, a different kind of "critter".

Define "verifiable". Have you done any reading on this subject? If so, please indicate what difficulties you have encountered. Well done. All critters are the same, just different versions. If you understand that, you understand evolution and common ancestry. That's why I asked you what you meant by "totally different".

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I can't believe you can come back to this thread and type in yet more nonsense, this time about "aliens" (!!), without even the slightest acknowledgement of my reply (post 48) to this previous balderdash of yours: Are you a random word generator? Have you no shame?