[Right Wing Professor]

Mmm, do think so. Most bacterial cultures are grown from a single cell. Allow a score or so doublings, treat with a mutagen, apply antibiotics at a moderate level, and let the culture double a few more score times, and you come up with strains that are far more resistant to the antibiotic that the original bug. It was an undergraduate lab. experiment when I was in college.

[That Subliminal Kid]

Is that what you'd call evolution? To my mind, when a population is killed off, for whatever reason, those who survive already possessed the genetic traits required to survive. That's why they were able to pass those traits on to progeny. That seems to me a poor example of true evolution. It's a great example of natural selection at work, but I'm not sure that there's any new genetic information being added to the pool.

[f.Christian]

Brilliant...and babies come from masturbation---pathetic!

[Blood of Tyrants]

The results from that experiment are far from "repeating evolution". All you have proven is that genes that were once dormant are now active. The bacteria is still that same species.