E. coli Bacteria Proves Evolution

This video is a brief overview, from a layman's point of view of an experiment to show how bacteria can evolve. In 1988 Prof. Richard Lenski, Michigan State Univ., began an experiment using E. coli bacteria, his experiment continues today after over 20 years.

The data on his experiment is all provided in the enclosed link to his website:

https://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/

I was turned on to this experiment thanks to Richard Dawkins latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Evidence For Evolution.


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[EnlightenedReader]

@fosm4 Evolution is not concerned with the origin of life. That's abiogenesis. Evolution is the scientific theory that explains the diversity of life.

[fosm4]

Did it create "new" life or just reproduce like we do?

[amoxtlacatl]

@TheoryIsSpeculation

Typical debate strategy of the religious: you call a naturalist understanding of reality "religion" so you can attack it.

Evolution has already happened. You are simply too close-minded to study the evidence and see that it is reasonable to conclude that evolution has happened and we are one of its multifarious -but not inevitable- results.

Do you accept DNA analysis as able to provide evidence of parentage or relatedness in a legal arena?

[amoxtlacatl]

@TheoryIsSpeculation

You quote Scripture first among your books. You believe in the Bible god, yes? Otherwise, I find it hard to understand where your opposition to evolution comes from. Please disabuse me.

Please google "Observed Instances of Evolution".

There is your evidence. Also, there is "forensic" evidence for evolution in the thousands of transitional forms found in the fossil record and confirmed by DNA analysis of modern species.

Of course, you will deny this, right?

[amoxtlacatl]

@TheoryIsSpeculation

By the way, is gravity speculation? Is germ theory speculation? I refer specifically to your name. I would like an answer.

If you already think the videos I sent you to are flawed, you are possibly beyond any hope of reasoning and will oppose verifiable science that produces verifiable results while believing in an unverified god.

Or you can shut me up by bringing your evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that a god exists.

[amoxtlacatl]

@TheoryIsSpeculation

My god? I have no god, mate. You are barking up the wrong tree.

Your flawed understanding is evidenced in that you expect a bacterium to evolve into a specific, very remote species before your eyes.

This is not so - such evolution takes place over very long periods of time as parents beget children who are almost but not quite identical to them. Little differences add up over huge periods of time to make huge differences.

And man will not necessarily be the result.

[amoxtlacatl]

@TheoryIsSpeculation

Imagine preaching an unverifiable god to hundreds, then thousands, then millions of people for the better part of two millenia, supported by the people who are content to believe in such preaching.

"Bacteria [...] evolves into Marilyn Monroe"

If the above is what your understanding of evolution, your understanding of evolution is grossly flawed.

Go watch AronRa's Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, potholer54's "Made Easy" series, and DonExodus2's evolution videos.

[AbdultheImpailler]

@TheoryIsSpeculation YAWN....

[AbdultheImpailler]

@TheoryIsSpeculation You again...yawn...

[PawnBACM]

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