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Anyone Seen Evolution?

Jeff Bush jbush at afit.af.mil
Mon Nov 18 17:02:34 EST 1996



On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Greg Adcock wrote:

> I smell a creationist but...

Through and through!

> Resistance... of hatever sort you like... insects to insecticides,

Sounds like natural selection, can you expound on that.  How do I know 
 there weren't a small percent of insects that were resistant to 
the insecticide to begin with.  My question was pointing at *observing* a 
benifitial mutation in the genetic code.


Jeff.



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