First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton

08 February 2008

 For many years there has been biologically engineered plants that are resistant to cretin insects. There is now a Bollworm that is not affected by the genetically engineered cotton plants and is spreading. While this is a problem for the cotton community, it is nothing new.

After years of resistance eventually there is an insect that is not affected. That one (because it survived) then passes its genes onto its children and you have a group of resistant bugs. Is this evolution? This may be survival of the fittest, but still does not explain arrival of the fittest. In Scientific American, p. 65, Sept. 1978 this topic was reported,

"Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at lest 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds."

Resistance happens in two ways
1. The genetic information is already there
2. It is due to a loss of information See Origins - Mutations Prove Creation

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoa-fdc020508.php