[burzum]

Duplicate, or your observations are no more scientific than Margaret Mead’s or Noam Chomsky’s. Postulates, hypotheses and theories should not be taught as given fact. Just because “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” sounds neat doesn’t mean it is necessarily true. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’

I'll make a bold prediction: more bacteria will become resistant to antibiotics and the flu next year will have mutated from the flu this year making flu shots given this year useless. But that would show that organisms mutate their genes so that their offspring will survive and multiply.

[steve8714]

To some extent, resistant bacteria already exist. Bacteria develop in response to stimuli, and incomplete dosage of antibiotics seems to let resistant bugs develop more resistance. Are viruses really a;ive?