At www.wired.com, Carl Zimmer discusses the remarkable resilience of
E. Coli:
http://tinyurl.com/68t22h
He reveals: "Just nine genes rule over about half of the 4,000-odd
genes in E. coli."
The he goes on to talk about an experiment that scientists did:
"The scientists randomly rewired the network in 598 different
ways and then stepped back to see what happened to the bacteria.
"You might expect that they all died. After all, if you were to
pop open the back of an iPod and start linking its components together
in random ways, you'd expect it to crash. But that's not what
happened.
"About 95 percent of the rewired bacteria did just fine with
their new networks."
That's how resilient bacteria are, and it was within this resilient
framework that the bulk of our genome was worked out. Everything
since then, over the last 800 or 900 billion years, has been simple
modifications to and tinkering with the existing gene network.
It's simple facts like these that creationists are too fundamentally
stupid to grasp, which is why they;re now reduced to asking asinine
questions about giraffes turning into a "different type" instead of
asking the intelligent, penetrating, mature and revealing questions
with which real scientists are engaged.
Budikka
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