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Science Friday: Stunning Videos of Evolution in Action


               
2016 Sep 8, 8:05pm   233 views  0 comments

by Dan8267   follow (4)  

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/stunning-videos-of-evolution-in-action/499136/

Intelligent design is a stupid idea. Clearly evolution requires no god.

What you’re seeing in the movie is a vivid depiction of a very real problem. Disease-causing bacteria and other microbes are increasingly evolving to resist our drugs; by 2050, these impervious infections could potentially kill ten million people a year. The problem of drug-resistant infections is terrifying but also abstract; by their nature, microbes are invisible to the naked eye, and the process by which they defy our drugs is even harder to visualise.

But now you can: just watch that video again. You’re seeing evolution in action. You’re watching living things facing down new challenges, dying, competing, thriving, invading, and adapting—all in a two-minute movie.

Now if only CIC could evolve as quickly as bacteria, or at least smell better than them.

#scitech #religion

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