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To: Sun

Evolution skeptics are still waiting for evos to prove that one species can become an entirely different species.
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How about this then.
"In 1975, Japanese scientists reported the discovery of bacteria that could break down nylon, the material used to make pantyhose and parachutes. Bacteria are known to ingest all sorts of things, everything from crude oil to sulfur, so the discovery of one that could eat nylon would not have been very remarkable if not for one small detail: nylon is synthetic; it didn't exist anywhere in nature until 1935, when it was invented by an organic chemist at the chemical company Dupont."

Is it possible that this new type of bacteria that has the ability to digest nylon arose spontaneously as a result of mutation (evolution). Because it allowed the bacteria to take advantage of a new resource, the ability stuck and was eventually passed on to future generations. There is also another type of bacteria that have been found to eat Styrofoam and turn it into useable plastic. Evolution while you watch.


125 posted on 03/16/2006 8:55:23 PM PST by ufans ("Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.")
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To: ufans; Sun
Simply because they "discovered" such bacteria in no way proves your point.

They simply "discovered" such bacteria exists.

It proves nothing.

126 posted on 03/16/2006 9:12:14 PM PST by LouAvul
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To: ufans

Now THAT is a stretch, lol, and an example of countless stretches, which is why commonsensical people do not believe in evolution.


128 posted on 03/16/2006 9:17:50 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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