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Micro Evolution In A Global Warming Future

This is just one example of my concern of many years that it is going to be the little things that kill us. Since well before 1999, when I mentioned it to a microbiology researcher, I have been worried that the much faster lifecycle of micro-organisms, and their resultant increase in evolution speed would be very dangerous to humans. They evolve much faster than we do. It is obviously already happening with bacteria and antibiotics. And it is happening with viral diseases as well. I wonder what the anti-evolutionists think about seeing evolution happen right before our eyes. I am sure they can come up with some unprovable non-sequitur to explain it all away. That's the thing about faith-based explanations - they never have to make sense or be provable. I mean, do they think some "intelligent" designer is sitting somewhere pointing his/her magic wand at all the DNA in world and saying, "Let's mutate that one today!"? We can (and should) worry about th