Arguably The Coolest Scientific Experiment Ever
And as bonus actually gives evidence for evolution.
A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:56 am
cool. Dunno if i’d call it an experiment though. More like an interesting discovery. Is Boose being picky about word choice? My bad.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:54 am
An intelligent creator was clearly in charge of this modification.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
While it’s useful in terms of examining mechanisms, these results shouldn’t be surprising. I mean, scientists have already seen evolution of everything from nylon-eating bacteria to high-running mice.
Even in the 19th century Dallinger showed that bacteria could develop tremendous heat resistance simply by being exposed to incrementally increasing heat over 500,000 generations.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
yeah, wake me up when we breed bacteria that eat garbage and shit gasoline
June 20th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
oh, and evolution doesn’t need evidence other than an understanding of basic microbiology and genetics mixed with a little common sense.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Faith doesn’t need evidence either.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
From that story I find this qoute:
In other words, the money needed to develop this techology would of been taxed away by policies you support.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 am
Which policies that I support? I’m not in favor of taxing investments or venture capital.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Honestly your comment confuses me.
You do believe in a progressive tax scheme in which the richer get taxed more than poor, don’t you? Do you know where venture capitalist get their money? I’ll give you a clue. Not from poor people.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Well the progressive tax I believe in is alreay in place, and that project seemed to get funded just fine, so I guess you’re wrong. Besides, many entrepenuers get funding from mutual funds that specialize in high-risk venture capitalism, ie they get funded by large groups of risk-taking middle classers. Since I’m trying to help preserve the existence of the middle class, that revenue stream is going to stay open.