How can we see virusus and bacteria evolve and mutate but know believe in evolution?

For example that new superbug evolved so that it is now drug resistant

How can we see virusus and bacteria evolve and mutate but know believe in evolution?
Because people generally avoid thinking for themselves. It's a great deal easier to just say "god made it so", than to come up with an actual explanation. Evolution by natural selection is real and happening all around us every second of every day whether or not people choose to believe in it. Why some choose to be so threatened by this, I'll never understand.


PS To the dude that claims it's "just a theory".... First, you need to understand what a theory is exactly. Without that little gem of knowledge, you're wasting your own time answering a question like this. To give you a vague hint as to the validity of something that becomes called a theory....gravity is still "just a theory", but I would bet that theory against your faith anytime you care to jump off a very tall building
Reply:There is no proof, it is only a THEORY! besides do you belive that we all just came to be because something exploded and the planets were made! yeh, thats the Big Bang theory and it's the most childish scientific explanation ever.
Reply:Most folks don't seem to understand what, exactly, evolution means. They might think that the flawed idea of Evolution is that a human might wake up one morning to find that they have turned into a gorilla.


They don't listen to the news and understand that the appearance of a new strain through mutation IS evolution.
Reply:Only stupid/ignorant people don't believe in the process of evolution. I don't know much about the religious crazies, but I think they (the informed ones) dispute if that is how we came to be. The ignorant people just know that their priest says it's wrong, and that it's "just a theory" (sort of like gravity), so they just deny that it even exists. But that's what religion does - makes people totally irrational, and very easily brainwashed - exactly what the people running the world want.
Reply:I think that all intelligent people concede that there is evolution and that the concept of a random mutation that ends up enhancing the fitness of the organism is valid. The question (for opponents of evolution) is whether it is plausable that all of the biodiversity of earth - and all of the unimaginably complex biological structures found within all forms of life - came about by means of random mutations and natural selection. Not taking a position against evolution here but - like you - trying to understand the intelligent design folks.
Reply:Some people can see the steps, but can't see how they add up to a staircase. What I want to know is how they can say this:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canis...


turning into this:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Littl...


is not considered proof of large changes taking place.
Reply:It is true that a bacteria can mutate and become drug resistant (such as in above case) but where is the evidence that it has become another organism? Have you ever seen a research paper proving that a bacterium has become a protist (which would be the next stage toward development to a higher organism)? Theories are built on facts/observations but they are still theories until they are proven! Evolution is still a theory and I can't agree more, especially as a person in biology, that it is logical that that is how complex life forms came to be.

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