Was Darwin Wrong David Quammen Analysis

David Quammen’s article strives to connect the topics, controversy, and historical significance, that surround Charles Darwin, and more accurately, his theory of evolution. Quammen’s article “Was Darwin Wrong?” discusses a variety of topics; including controversy with evolutionary theory, evolution by natural selection, the life of Charles Darwin, and even antibiotic resistance in diseases. Quammen starts his article with an explanation of the word “theory” and its importance in the field of science. He explains that theory in the scientific world is tested, that it must be believable and comprehensible with the information and evidence one has access to today. However, Quammen goes on to explain, that the Evolutionary theory has come to face

The means for adaption among diseases is what makes them harmful to society, complicated, and costly to treat. According to Quammen as time moves along people find and make new ways to kill diseases, and diseases find new ways to survive and adapt. The adaptive strength found in these antibiotic-resistant strains of diseases is a prime example of evolution at its finest. However, this is not a good thing for other living organisms, primarily humans. As people find new ways to these germs, these germs find new ways to infect people. According to Quammen this antibiotic warfare has many understandably concerned. With what some believe to be a growing pandemic on our hands many feel we need to push more actively towards growing public awareness and finding new ways to slow down the adaption processes of harmful diseases. Unfortunately, not much progress has been made to find a reasonable solution to antibiotic-resistant diseases. Many even believe that there is no one simple solution to slowing the evolution and adaption of our tiny foes. This belief is due to the fact that the very antibiotics we create have been shown to strengthen the disease that it was meant to kill. This can occur when individuals do not use antibiotics as prescribed or when an antibiotic is used in overabundance. As the growth rate of ever adapting diseases increase in our modern world more so does the need to educate the public of this threat. Major changes need to be made in the way people think about disease and antibiotics. As Quammen points out, the evolution of disease is not only a heavily expensive issue, is also hazardous to society as we know