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Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab
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."
Turds often float to the surface even in the genetic pool.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Continuous creation. God put those new bacteria there to test my faith ;-)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
It's a miracle!
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
And getting first post on Slashdot improves your chances to reproduce how, exactly? No offense, but I think you may be an evolutionary dead end.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Wasn't that already proven with the rise of homo sapiens?
Careful What You Wish For....
God performs miracle of transformation on bacteria right before the eyes of watching scientists, yet they still refuse to believe in Him.
:(
Okay... I was just saying
To bacteria, that means "It'll happen eight times before Thursday."
I can't wait for God's press release on this one.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
Ha! God let the devil do this so he can test who are the real faithful, and who are the unfaithful to be smitten.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
We are not bacteria! We are not bacteria! We are not monkeys! I mean we are not bacteria!
You can't even see a bacteria with your own eye, so this can't be real.
This doesn't prove or disprove Evolution (not the big E) or creationism. The bacterium merely adapted to their environment, the evolved (little e), which creationist have no problem with. The presence of Citrate aided at some level in the tiny changes to each successive generation until those changes resulted in the ability to digest citrate.
Show me how how the leafy sea dragon developed its leafiness and I might just start to believe in Evolution (with a big E), othewise, you are just seeing persistent change from generation to generation that eventually produces something useful.
Or, maybe if the bacterium suddenly developed the ability to feed on their glass petri dishes.
Otherwise, neither side should be to quick to exclaim or disclaim anything.
Bearded Dragon
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
I for one...
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
Anything you say will be held against you.
Actually it sucks. Now the lime won't kill the bacteria on the beer bottle.
What?
"perplex and confound creationists"
_Nothing_ perplexes or confounds creationists.,
First off, if you're putting a lime on your beer bottle, you're doing it wrong.
Secondly, if your opened beer bottle still contains beer over the course of the hours it takes for bacteria to colonize it (lime or no lime), you're doing it really wrong.
Since we haven't had a good car analogy in this thread yet:
Microevolution would be if you drive your car across town. This has been proven so many times that by now everyone accepts it as true.
Macroevolution would be if you could drive your car all the way to another country. This is, as everyone in America knows, impossible.
Come to think of it, this analogy could help explain why they hardly ever have these kinds of debates in Europe, too...
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
No, they're not random. The Flying Spaghetti Monster reached out with His Noodly Appendage and blessed the bacteria. Ramen.
If Intelligent Design were not so analogous to Military Intelligence, I might make the effort to click the link. Then again, my mind is not so open that my brain is in danger of falling out.
What does sex in a boat and yankee beer have in common?
They're both f***** close to water.