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Budikka666 <budikka1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.
The problem is that they either don't understand or were never taught
the science
>
> Budikka
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