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ing exposed to antibiotics. Despite the were buried in the permafrost and remai-
fact that it is an evolutionist publication, ned deeply frozen until their bodies were
Scientific American made the following exhumed in 1986. Preservation was so
statement in its March, 1998 issue: complete that six strains of nineteenth-cen-
tury bacteria found dormant in the con-
Many bacteria possessed resistance genes
tents of the sailors' intestines were able to
even before commercial antibiotics came
be revived! When tested, these bacteria
into use. Scientists do not know exactly
were found to possess resistance to several
why these genes evolved and were maintai-
modern-day antibiotics, including penicil-
ned. 29
lin. 30
The fact that genetic information af-
Since the medical world now knows
forded bacterial resistance before the in-
that this kind of resistance was present in
vention of antibiotics invalidates the cla-
some bacteria before the discovery of pe-
ims of evolutionists.
nicillin, it is definitely erroneous to claim
Since bacterial ability of resistance
that bacterial resistance is an evolutionary
existed years before the discovery of anti-
development.
biotics, the respected scientific journal
In bacteria, the development of immu-
Medical Tribune related this interesting
nity occurs in this way:
finding in its December 29, 1988 issue:
In any one species of bacteria, there
In 1845, sailors on an . . . Arctic expedition
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)