Unfortunately, this argument no longer works against creationists. Now they claim that organisms have always had resistance to toxins and that the trait is simply coming out in your example.
Which would put their little "theory" in a compromised position, because it would be going against the accumulated chronological effects of Adam's sin.
Just like with everything else, they are quite adept at ignoring the contradictions in their own arguments if those contradicting arguments help them maintain their bronze age delusions.
Unfortunately, this argument no longer works against creationists. Now they claim that organisms have always had resistance to toxins and that the trait is simply coming out in your example.
Which would put their little "theory" in a compromised position, because it would be going against the accumulated chronological effects of Adam's sin.
There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.
Here in Oz, we have a lot of feral pests. The native blue-tongue skink is becoming resistant to the feral cane toad's toxin. That's because they also eat a feral plant with a similar toxin!
Mother-of-millions has been recorded in Australia for 70 years or so, suggesting that the lizards have gained tolerance to its toxin rapidly. Blue-tongue lizards create a new generation every two to four years, says study co-author Gregory Brown, also at the University of Sydney.
"It is extremely surprising that one of the lizard populations should genetically change over such a relatively short period of time," says Michael Tyler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, who was not involved in the work. "But I am convinced. There is no other explanation I can find."
