How do you define the word Evolution?

I have a theory that the sun exists, but so far I have only been able to verify it by observation, so, alas, it lies outside the realm of science.

The medical profession concerns itself with the real world - to wit: helping the sick; it has every reason to concern itself with phenomena such as the evolution of bacteria which threaten human health, which is why looking at medical journals reveals that they do in fact concern themselves with this. What a bizarre, stupid, insane lie. Whom is it intended to deceive?

Further to my previous remarks, I would point out that only evolution makes sense of the fact that these are adaptations. Why should the neck of the giraffe, which is long and goes up, bear such a striking resemblance to the neck of, say, a pig, which is short and goes along?(If we found two analogous designed objects, such as a footbridge across a short stream and a radio mast, which had the same basic plan, which were so obviously variations on the same theme, this would not make sense to us, we would be deeply puzzled.)Now evolution does make perfect sense of the pig and the giraffe: they have common ancestry, they are adaptations of the same thing, and per the theory of evolution, evolution cannot scrap a design and go back to the drawing board.Without evolution, how would you make sense of it? A creationist might get as far as "God chose to do it that way for some reason", but what is the reason?

And this, CRR, is why "god did it" strikes us as a cop-out. You can always imagine that God did anything, earthquakes, rainbows, giraffes, whatever. He can do anything, he's God. But you then can't explain why God did it, or why he did it that way. But science can explain why things are that way.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

I'm not sure CRR was trying to suggest anything more than that.

Nope. What an interesting fantasy world you live in.

That's easy. None of them is "due to the antibiotic" because evolution doesn't work that way.You ... you really don't know anything about evolution, do you? So why are you discussing it?

Your petulant anger at people who know more than you do is most amusing.

You're welcome. I wonder how long it will take me to disabuse you of all your other naive misconceptions.

Well, David, that was bullshit wasn't it?

Well, David, that was also bullshit, wasn't it?

You seem a little confused, Dredge. I did not say "There is a use of medical science that depends on the theory that all life on earth shares a common ancestor".What I said was: "The medical profession concerns itself with the real world - to wit: helping the sick; it has every reason to concern itself with phenomena such as the evolution of bacteria which threaten human health, which is why looking at medical journals reveals that they do in fact concern themselves with this."If you can't refute this, which you obviously can't, then trying to change the subject is no substitute.

And mutation. The evolution of antibiotic resistance is an example of evolution. And undergo natural selection.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Well, if we didn't see small-scale evolution, then we would have an excellent reason to doubt large-scale evolution. So the fact that we do see small-scale evolution is at least suggestive. No, just the increases that must have taken place to get us where we are now. That would be something you made up.

It's interesting to note how all the creationists are wrong.