What kind of elitist crap is that?
Yes, my Masters Degree in Cell and Molecular Biology is signed by Arnold Swartzenegger because it was a state school; thanks for asking.
Interesting...isn’t it the elitist liberal professors that won’t let HS kids go to public colleges now because they didn’t “learn” science the “right way” as enforced by legal action?
First, how about addressing this question:
Is nylon-digesting bacteria considered to be a different type/species/kind of organism than non-nylon-digesting bacteria?
(Seems to me they’re clearly the same kind of organism (i.e. bacteria), just as a person vulnerable to sickle-cell anaemia is as much of a human being as a person not vulnerable to that disease. But macro-evolution is all about one kind of organism leading to distinctly different kinds. Like a bacterium becoming a bumble bee or a gnat. THAT’s the kind of “significant” I’m talking about.)
As far as your question – “Why would a bacteria as part of its stress response increase its mutation rate?” – assuming this is true, I don’t know why.
What I DO know, however, is that your statement – “…a bacteria under stress INTENTIONALLY increases its mutation rate in order TO INCREASE ITS CHANCES of successful evolution” presumes not only a type of CONSCIOUSNESS, but both an INTELLIGENCE and a WILL…in the lowly bacteria. I know that a true-blue evolutionist would never entertain such an idea of an organism directing/orchestrating its own evolution.
Here’s a bonus question…given it’s late and soon time for sleep, could you tell us some bed-time stories from the ToE about exactly how those things – consciousness, intelligence, will – evolved?