[Sopater]

I just don’t see variation within a baramin as strong evidence for the ToE. Especially when the “trait” that has been identified as a variation already exists in other similar species, and even in the same species. Call me when scientists have been able to observe a change such as bacteria reproducing a protist of some kind.

[allmendream]

No e.coli ever observed has the ability to digest citrate except the citrate plus strain that was observed to evolve in the lab. This is a complex metabolic pathway, the kind of increased complexity that many claim is impossible; now that it has been observed suddenly it is dismissed as not a big deal, but it is.

The rise of eukaryote was thought to take about a billion years, so if such was observed to happen in the lab over a few decades it would make us all rethink how evolution happens rather than being what one would expect.

Indeed such a rapid evolution is only proposed by Creationists who think all modern species were derived from a few pairs of animals loaded onto Noah's ark.