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Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab

Posted by kdawson on from the forty-four-thousand-generations dept.

Auxbuss sends us to New Scientist for news sure to perplex and confound creationists: scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. "A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events."

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  1. Re:Two words by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Eh, I'm a Creationist, and I think evolution can take place.

    I'm not sure how many people read my short book, but chapter 11 has one of the better explanations on how evolution fits in well with Creationism.

    Now that being said, it is only a possible avenue, and could be wrong. I come with an authority in that I know that God exists, Jesus is real. Anything else I say could be wrong, but I reason the best I can.

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  2. Re:Evolutionist by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To answer your question:

    Because they are a bunch of crack-pot fundamentalists nuts (CPFNs). Look at other CPFNs, such as the Taliban, Al-Qeda, etc. They are very dangerous because their belief justifies horrific actions. The particular CPFN referred to in the article is obsessed with silencing the scientists in question and they are increasingly willing to do anything, whether illegal or immoral, to do so as they can justify their bad actions by saying "I did it for God."

    Do you understand now?

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  3. Re:Two words by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I do not recognize your authority because it is based in a delusion.

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  4. Re:Two words by Das+Modell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's a pretty shallow interpretation of the meaning of life. Even an atheist can believe that there is more to life than simply existing, like helping others, making the world a better place, or even simply bettering ourselves?

    No, he is absolutely correct. Objectively speaking there is no other purpose in life except reproduction. He also said "and what you want to make of it."

    I like how you got modded "flamebait" for no apparent reason, but I guess by now I should be used to the fact that Slashdot is one of the dumbest and most uneducated Internet communities in existence.