On Fri, 09 May 2008 21:59:31 -0400, MarkA wrote:
> On Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:40 -0700, Budikka666 wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> The next time a IDiot tries to tell you that random mutation/natural
> selection cannot *add* new information to the genome, point out to them
> that the genome of Amoeba dubia is 200 times larger than that of humans.
> Clearly, we "microevolved" from Amoeba, and we are the same "kind".
Dubya is an amoeba? This explains much... :)
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