&gt; but they don&#x27;t have brains<p>Does not mean that they are not highly intelligent, especially in their home environment which we can only observe through a microscope. At the end of the day there is more of them in us than pretty much what is us... they have got lots of places to hide.<p>&gt; We&#x27;ve shown time and again that we can invent in a day what takes evolution millions of years.<p>Some citation needed. Just because we extracted chemicals that have been used for millions of years and invented by yet other living organisms that had been battling them for millions of years does not mean we invented a damn thing. And we destroyed those discoveries in 10s of years.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not unreasonable to expect we&#x27;ll succeed<p>Succeed at what? Destroying all pathogenic bacteria all the time? We can&#x27;t even do it some of the time currently. In the end the red queen will win... and this temporary war will lead to the same truce that&#x27;s been going on since the dawn of life.