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To: count-your-change
And yet after all these millions of generations Mr. e. Coli is just a bacterium. I don’t think he’s ever going to be anything else.

You made the same mistake made above. There are different kinds of bacteria! Change from one type of bacteria to another demonstrates speciation (macroevolution).

Didn't you see the recent news articles? Michigan State biologist Richard Lenski and colleagues grew thousands of generations of E. coli that normally live off of glucose. After more than 30,000 generations some developed the capacity to metabolize citrate.

Now you may not think much of this, but it demonstrates speciation (macroevolution) in the laboratory--something creationists typically claim is impossible. That's a pretty good start, eh?

11 posted on 07/28/2008 7:07:00 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

I’ll never understand the folks who think evolution disproves God.. on either side of the isle.

Change by its very occurrance is one of the more visible signs of God in the universe.

Lets face it, nothing changes without first being acted on by an outside force... to trace all change and movement back to the begining and you are left with the first move... to the faithful this is God... to those who refuse to believe the answer is “I don’t know”.


13 posted on 07/28/2008 7:27:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Coyoteman
So this was done in the laboratory by some intelligent design, not random selection. Fifty years of fruit fly genetic lab experiments on countless number of fruit fly have not created a new species using intelligent design combined with random selection. If it is done in a lab it is intelligent design and not natural selection.
18 posted on 07/28/2008 6:19:36 PM PDT by tongass kid
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