When I was young I was susceptible to chicken pox, then I got chicken pox, then I developed a resistance to chicken pox. I am an organism that has an immune system, I became immune I DID NOT EVOLVE. Antibiotic resistance is a complex immune system that defends a species (bacteria) but does not 'evolve' it.
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I believe most of the individual parts of an adaptive immune system are sized on the order of an individual bacterium or larger. You just can't fit an immune system like that in a bacterium. It's doubly impossible for a virus, such HHV-3, which causes chickenpox.not an immune system and things are only fixed in the children.
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Edit: This is ignoring the restriction enzymes of bacteria which cut up invading DNA, part of an "immune system" that's of no help against antibiotics.
Individuals do not evolve, they adapt. Evolution occurs over hundreds/thousands/millions of years. We have our immune system courtesy of initial eukaryotic cellular development and evolution which millions of years later, our ancestors (the australopithicines et al.) had and carried through to us. Again...individuals do not evolve...species do.
Quite correct: You did NOT evolve. Nobody in their right mind should say that you did.
Except for the small fact that an immune system is only present in a multi-cellular organism.
Typical fundie. When presented with proof of evolution, they just throw a strawman.
“When I was young I was susceptible to chicken pox, then I got chicken pox, then I developed a resistance to chicken pox. I am an organism that has an immune system, I became immune I DID NOT EVOLVE.”
"Antibiotic resistance is a complex immune system that defends a species (bacteria) but does not 'evolve' it.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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