I often see creationists and the "ID" people complaining bitterly about lack of evolution in the world around us - you know the sort of thing. "I'll accept evolution if a chimp gives birth to a human baby". Well, that would be extraordinary, I admit, and I might even think about believing in god if it ever happened, but I digress.
There are obvious evolutionary changes going on all around us, and they make front-page news. I refer, of course, to the "germs", the grubbiest of god's creatures, which, even as I type, are engaged in a genetic arms race against pharmaceutical companies, or at least their antibiotics.
Probably the best-known of these is MRSA, the methicillin-resistant Staph. aureus, but there are many other examples.
Now, we all know about this bacterium, but my question is this: would a creationist who was suffering from an MRSA infection insist on receiving conventional (ineffective, Biblical??) antibiotic treatment for SA, or would they accept that SA has evolved into MRSA, and go for the correct antibiotic?
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