Does this sound harsh to the novice lurker? Did I just jump in and issue a note of condemnation before the guy has had a chance to answer? Note that Southack has definitely, positively, absolutely, grasped for an invalid, mistaken, and utterly wrong straw in his quest to prove that increases in genetic diversity never happen.
I'm having a psychic moment. You will now witness (apologies to P. I. Tchaikovsky) "The Dance of the Super-Dumb Larry," a man brazening out a mistake so obvious a cub reporter like Dan Rather could spot it.
You know, I've been reading for years on these threads the claim that the bacteria/antibiotic experiment is just selecting traits already present, but is never occurred to me how anyone could arrive at that claim.
Now I know. Antibiotic resistence is a RECESSIVE trait. Wow. It's so simple. Someone should get a Nobel prize for this. And to think, so many tenured professors of biology have overlooked this for so long.