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To: LiberConservative
Here is a quick and dirty wiki write-up on a long term e-coli experiment which went on for over 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment
21 posted on 11/24/2009 9:53:34 AM PST by IronKros (The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
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To: IronKros
Indeed. Quite an interesting read. But it says little to support evolution. This is the saliant quote: ... the bacteria in each population are thought to have generated hundreds of millions of mutations over the first 20,000 generations, Lenski has estimated that only 10 to 20 beneficial mutations achieved fixation ...

And we are talking about one of the simplest lifeforms on the planet.

These mutations could very well have been in the genetic code of the bacteria for generations and repressed and appeared only after extreme numbers of generations. Furthermore, after all of these generations they are still only one genus or family: the e-coli bacteria. This is natural selection. Not evolution. There is a huge difference.

22 posted on 11/24/2009 3:07:12 PM PST by LiberConservative
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