The End of Humans, the Rise of Bacteria

Very few thinking people are naive enough to believe that humans will remain the dominant species on this earth forever.  "Forever" is a long time.  I'm sure that if dinosaurs possessed the level of cognitive thinking that humans do, they would have thought they were going to live forever too.  Of course, dinosaurs are a whole grouping of various species that are somewhere between birds and reptiles, but they roamed the earth for 165 million years.  Mammals have only been a dominant species for the better part of the last 60 million years, so should we be looking for the downfall of mammals anytime soon?

Provided a drastic change in climate or other unforeseen disaster occurs, probably not, but the human species?  That's a whole different question.  I don't buy into scare tactics by the media or even scientists.  It's too hard to tell who's got an agenda these days, but I do believe that in some ways, our modern medicine is both saving and destroying our species.

Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog is one of my favorite weekly reads (despite it's late 90's website design format).  Check out his newest article on the end of antibiotics and potentially the end of humans:

http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2010/08/15/are-you-ready-for-a-world-without-antibiotics/