[TN4Liberty]

It isn't hard to come up with billions of E-coli bacteria. It's not like you have to buy them. If you want to play Mr Scientific Method, knock yourself out. But you do a disservice to your argument when you extrapolate beyond what the data saya, and that is what you are doing in this case. I am not taking sides in this debate you folks want to have everyday. But this experiment does not appear to deal with generations, and is not generalizable into some proof of evolution. Not saying such proof does not exist in laboratory settings. But this isn't it.

[Nebullis]

It isn't hard to come up with billions of E-coli bacteria. It's not like you have to buy them. If you want to play Mr Scientific Method, knock yourself out.

No problem. For this experiment, without regeneration, you'd need 1x10^88 bacteria. Not in the billions as you propose. A billion would take about one night to grow in a 1/2 liter flask.