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'''Bacteria''' are single-celled microorganisms.  Modern [[pathology]] and [[medicine]] are based on the findings of [[Louis Pasteur]] and later [[Robert Koch]] and [[Charles Laveran]] that bacteria cause many ailments.

'''Bacteria''' are single-celled microorganisms.  Modern [[pathology]] and [[medicine]] are based on the findings of [[Louis Pasteur]] and later [[Robert Koch]] and [[Charles Laveran]] that bacteria cause many ailments, but most microbes, in agreement with the benevolent nature of the [[Creator]], are actually beneficial to man and nature.<ref name="AiG Bacteria">[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/microbes-days-of-creation Microbes and the Days of Creation], Answers: Research Journal.</ref>  Bible scholars have dated their creation between Day 3 and 6 during Creation Week.<ref name="AiG Bacteria">[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/microbes-days-of-creation Microbes and the Days of Creation], Answers: Research Journal.</ref>

Bacterial [[disease]] was a source of fear for humankind for most of [[history]]. This fear was largely abated by the development of [[antibiotic]] drugs in the last half of the 1900s. The general impression was that most bacterial diseases could be cured, relatively quickly and easily. But bacteria gain resistance to certain types of antibiotics, making their continued treatment in a recurrent infection difficult at times.<ref>[http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/antibiot/readings/evolve.htm antibiot-readings]</ref> However, this is not [[evolution]], since the bacteria do not change from one type to another, they only gain or lose a few genes involved in the antibiotic and no new information is created. Bacterial disease is becoming a more serious medical problem, particularly in hospitals which tend to harbor a population of drug-resistant bacteria.

Bacterial [[disease]] was a source of fear for humankind for most of [[history]]. This fear was largely abated by the development of [[antibiotic]] drugs in the last half of the 1900s. The general impression was that most bacterial diseases could be cured, relatively quickly and easily. But bacteria gain resistance to certain types of antibiotics, making their continued treatment in a recurrent infection difficult at times.<ref>[http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/antibiot/readings/evolve.htm antibiot-readings]</ref> However, this is not [[evolution]], since the bacteria do not change from one type to another, they only gain or lose a few genes involved in the antibiotic and no new information is created. Bacterial disease is becoming a more serious medical problem, particularly in hospitals which tend to harbor a population of drug-resistant bacteria.