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:Hi Philip, I read your post and I don't think it addresses anything other than semantics. The bacteria  was standard E Coli, and then after tens of thousands of generations, it started to metabolise citrate, which normally ''distinguishes'' E Coli from other species. That's very clearly the process of changing inherited traits over generations - ie, evolution.[[User:JPohl|JPohl]] 08:45, 27 June 2008 (EDT)
 
:Hi Philip, I read your post and I don't think it addresses anything other than semantics. The bacteria  was standard E Coli, and then after tens of thousands of generations, it started to metabolise citrate, which normally ''distinguishes'' E Coli from other species. That's very clearly the process of changing inherited traits over generations - ie, evolution.[[User:JPohl|JPohl]] 08:45, 27 June 2008 (EDT)
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:: I can't help wondering if you skimmed it too quickly and didn't pick which bit I was referring to here.  I'll explain it in a different way:
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::* According to evolution, there must be millions of information-generating mutations to go from microbes to man.
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::* According to creation, mutations do ''not'' produce new genetic information, although ''very rarely'', you might by chance get the odd one.
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::Lenski has allegedly found ''one'' information-generating mutation.  So which of those two competing predictions does this evidence match the best?
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:: I also pointed out two weeks ago on Andy's talk page the following:
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{{QuoteBox|It took 31,500 generations before the bacteria acquired a single new ability (even assuming they actually do have some new genetic information). 31,500 generations for humans is around 600,000 to 900,000 years (depending on the average time between generations). Yet humans have supposedly evolved ''hundreds'' if not ''thousands'' of new abilities from their supposed primate forbears in a time span only three to five times that long. So this research can be seen as evidence (not absolute proof, of course) that evolution simply does not occur fast enough for us humans to have evolved, which is therefore ''evidence'' that evolution can't explain our existence.}}
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:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 09:37, 27 June 2008 (EDT)
    
==Lead author won't answer simple,  basic questions==
 
==Lead author won't answer simple,  basic questions==
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