I said paraphrase Lorentz..you go to Med scchool and don't even know the history of penicillin..it was discovered by accident..heres a link Lorentz
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/educational/penicillin/readmore.html
there were no evolutionary methods involved...new antibiotics developed:
some are due to possibly micromutations that may lead to resistance or another possibility is that there exists strains of bacteria that have existed before and were resistant to the drug..heres 1 excerpt from icr
"A new line of research has produced tantalizing results. Evidently, when stressed, some microbes go into a mutation mode, rapidly producing a variety of strains, thereby increasing the odds that some will survive the stress. This has produced some interesting areas for speculation by creationists, but it still mitigates against evolution. There is a tremendous scope of genetic potential already present in a cell, but E. coli bacteria before stress and mutation remain E. coli.
Minor change has taken place, but not true evolution.
Furthermore, it has been proven that resistance to many modern antibiotics was present decades before their discovery. In 1845, sailors on an ill-fated Arctic expedition were buried in the permafrost and remained deeply frozen until their bodies were exhumed in 1986. Preservation was so complete that six strains of nineteenth-century bacteria found dormant in the contents of the sailors' intestines were able to be revived! When tested, these bacteria were found to possess resistance to several modern-day antibiotics, including penicillin. Such traits were obviously present prior to penicillin's discovery, and thus could not be an evolutionary development.** "
Besides how do the companies use evolution to develop new drugs..
Duane Gish
("Duane Gish, Ph.D. Biochemistry (ICR)
He has a B.S. in Chemistry from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California (Berkeley).
He spent a total of 18 years in biochemical research; with Cornell University Medical College (NYC), with the Virus Laboratory, U of Cal-Berkley and and on the research staff of the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company (Michigan). He has published approximately 40 articles in scientific journals")
was
one of the heads of the research firms working for
Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in Michigan and he said they just
used sound scientific principles..in fact he even said that what you just said
is one of EVOS greatest lies perpetuated on the public..he should know look at his resume above
so thats my explanation on this lorentz..No i don't intentionally disregard your pubmed links because i either haven't gotten it (don't read this cite 24/7)
or it may be I have but it has yet to change my mind on this issue.
Glad to know your grandma reads...maybe she can go on this cite and pass that skill among some of your EVO friends