[js1138]

Seeing how these bacteria can select for the nylon adaption with in 9 days suggest the information is already within the system, not a product of mutation and selection gaining of new information.

Evolution is learning. The fact that you can learn something in nine days does not suggest the information was already in your head. If you open a combination lock by trial and error, the combination was not in your head before the lock opened. In the case of the nylon eating bacteria, only a digit or two are needed.

But this is how evolution works. A digit at a time.

[flevit]

the point is, using your analogy, there is a combination lock that exists, and can only be used in a finite way, the difference between opening or closing the existing (could be many) locks, vs. the (seemingly infinite)addition of newly formed locks.

the stickleback(definitely) and bacteria (nylon eating seems to be) are both examples of opening or closing a preexisting "lock", the trick is to show a new lock that did not exist being added.

this time last post for awhile. it really is addicting.