If it isn't evolution, would you be so kind as to inform UCLA Berkeley of that "fact?"
Superbug, super-fast evolution
The site linked was created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology with support provided by the National Science Foundation (grant no. 0096613) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (grant no. 51003439). I believe there might be a credential or 2 among them.
An evolutionist coined the term macro and micro evolution. It has fallen out of vogue with evolutionists today.
Evolution appears to be the sweep of the process going from molecule to man.
I believe in micro evolution, that is the adaption of an organism to its environment. I do not ascribe to macro evolution.
So, to the antibiotic resistant bacteria. Are they and example of molecule to man evolution ? no.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria began appearing in the late 1940´s
Antibiotic resistant bacteria come about in two ways, gene transfer between organisms (horizontal gene transfer)
Adaption
They become antibiotic resistant by the alteration of a gene changes the protein that the antibiotic binds to kill the organism . The antibiotic cannot bind to the protein, the antibiotic is useless. In an antibiotic present environment, survival of the fittest results in a population of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
However, the altered protein is less able perform itś original function. Outside of the antibiotic present environment, the bacteria is less fit to survive. Natural selection will eliminate it.
In the anthrax scare after 9/11 the antibiotic cipro was given to possible victims. Cipro belongs to a class of antibiotics called quinolones, which bind to a protein called gyrase. interfering with the ability of the bacteria to reproduce, so, it can be overwhelmed by the bodyś immune system.
The quinolone resistant bacteria have mutations in the genes encoding the gyrase protein. The bacteria survive because the cipro cannot bind to the protein.
However, the price paid for the resistance is that these bacteria reproduce more slowly, and cannot compete in a non quinolone environment.
The mechanisms of mutation and natural selection aid bacteria populations to become resistant to antibiotics BUT, the same processes result in bacteria with defective proteins that have lost their natural functions.
Evolution requires a gain of functional systems for bacteria to evolve beyond being bacteria.
Mutation and natural selection of bacteria re antibiotics results in the loss of natural functional systems.
So, antibiotic bacteria are not examples of evolution, but rather are variations within a type of organism, which Creationists readily admit occur. These bacteria have not gained anything that will help them evolve into the next type of organism.
See
¨Antibiotic resistant bacteria, how did we get to this ?" flemingforum.org,uk
¨The problem with antimicrobial resistance ¨ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Heddle, Johnathon and Anthony Maxwell, ¨ Quinolone binding pocket DNA gyrase¨ Antimicrobial agents and Chemotherapy, 46 1805 - 1815 2002