Evolution Observed

From IniquityX:

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

NewScientist is running a story on an exciting new development in evolutionary biology. In short, scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. This mutation occurred in a population of Escherichia coli bacteria that has been in isolated development for 20 years. The evolution of these bacteria has been observed for over 44,000 generations, and has suddenly acquired the ability metabolize citrate.

Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago notes: “The thing I like most is it says you can get these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events,” he says. “That’s just what creationists say can’t happen.”

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: Ben Stein

Ben is praying for you and wants the best… the best means sending nuclear weapons to kill thousands… but, let us now focus on the bad stuff. We got ‘Murican Pride.

In this episode Ben Stein is again taken to task over his mindless spin doctoring (not dissimilar to his ‘universities are fortresses of nonsense’ line), most annoyingly his statement that ’science leads to killing people’. What I find most disturbing is that the Christian audience and host were seemly un-phased by this opinion. Have they no sense of perspective?

Add this to steins scaremongering/warmongering where he is arguing that the US military which constitutes about 50% of the military spending of the world is grossly inadequate and ‘worn down to the nub’.