Dr. Jonathan Wells has been engaged in a blog debate with several Darwinists about a recent advance in research on bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In a recent post, Dr. Wells observed:

According to a February 26, 2008 report in ScienceDaily, a team of French scientists has unraveled the structure of a protein that allows bacteria to gain resistance to multiple antibiotics. Frédéric Dardel and his colleagues crystallized two forms of the antibiotic-modifying enzyme acetyltransferase and showed that it has a flexible active site that can evolve to enable bacteria to break down various antibiotics and render them useless. The research may aid in the design of new antibiotics to deal with this form of resistance, which is becoming a serious medical problem.
This is very good news! Unfortunately, Darwinists will probably claim — as they have done many times in the past — that their theory was indispensable to the achievement.
Yet Darwinian evolution had nothing to do with it.

Dr. Wells goes on to point out what most unbiased observers would consider obvious. Dr. Dardel’s excellent work was the product of molecular biology, crystallography, physical chemistry, and pharmacology. It is an exemplar of the superb and important work done by researchers studying ways to treat bacterial infections and to combat antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Darwin’s theory was superfluous to the research.
Dr. Well’s mundane observation was met with a fusillade of vicious personal invective from Darwinist scientists. University of Minnesota associate professor of biology P.Z.