Is Mycobacterium Leprae, the Bacteria That Causes Leprosy, Evidence of Evolution
“Is Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes leprosy, evidence of evolution?” Evolutionist Sean B. Carrol argues in his book “Making the Fittest: DNA: The Ultimate Record of Evolution” that the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, which causes leprosy, contains many pseudogenes that have been destroyed by mutations. Even if we go beyond the point that pseudogenes have become questionable due to discoveries that prove the functions of these genes, you can read our brother Mohamed Mahmoud’s article about some of these functions:
What happened was a deterioration, and has nothing to do with evolution, as many genes and functions were lost from bacteria, due to genome shrinkage and gene disintegration. M. leprae has undergone reductive evolution, whereby many genes and associated functions were lost through shrinkage of the genome and gene decay, possibly due to a drastic change in lifestyle from free-living, like most mycobacteria, to host-associated.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2217/fmb.10.153