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General => Science => Topic started by: SSY on December 25, 2008, 12:31:56 PM

Title: Evolution in the palm of your hand.
Post by: SSY on December 25, 2008, 12:31:56 PM
My attention was recently directed to this

Clicky! (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html)

The demonstration of various evolutionary methods is no doubt, handy in any ID/evolution argument, not to mention the selection of traits that combine in unexpected ways to form new traits. However for some reason, the thing that really caught my eye was the scientific rigour of his research.

The experiment has been going on for decades, with fastidious record keeping allowing the "replay" of evolution from any point in time. Surely, as more and more evidence like this accumulates, people will have to give up foisting creationism on our science teachers, and their futile attempts to refute evolution with faith and religion.
Title: Re: Evolution in the palm of your hand.
Post by: Msblue on December 30, 2008, 08:11:00 PM
Articles like that make me giddy. Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Evolution in the palm of your hand.
Post by: Squid on December 30, 2008, 10:08:20 PM
Quote from: "Msblue"Articles like that make me giddy. Thanks for sharing.

The article itself is free to download from the PNAS journal's website:

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/23/7899.full.pdf+html