The results, published in the current issue of Nature, are revealed through an in-depth, genomics-based analysis that decodes how E. coli bacteria figured out how to supplement a traditional diet of glucose with an extra course of citrate.
“It’s pretty nifty to see a new biological function evolve,” said Zachary Blount, postdoctoral researcher in MSU’s BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. “The first citrate-eaters were just barely able to grow on the citrate, but they got much better over time. We wanted to understand the changes that allowed the bacteria to evolve this new ability. We were lucky to have a system that allowed us to do so.”
via Evolution is as complicated as 1-2-3.
Well, looks like it can.
Immediately, you’ll get calls that this is really adaptation. Oddly enough, I’d agree in theory – but adaption over extended periods of time lead to evolution. Further, as this is not a sentient being, how does it “know” to adapt? Ahhh… because of evolution.
Just more evidence of God’s continued creating process…
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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I predict a Davy Tee post . . .
are you a prophet?
No it was just obvious.
You are not seeing evolution nor natural selection in action. They cannot prove that their supposed process is the only source for that result. Plus,they are starting with fully developed specimens who already have their genetic code in place and combining them.
This is not evolution in action at all but simple cheating by the evolutionists. When the evolutionist gets back to the original one celled life form and conduct their experiments as per their claims and then show how E. Coli came to be, then they have performed an evolutionary experiment. Until then, they are merely attributing God’s work to a non-existant process.
Taking fully developed genetical material, which has been corrupted by Adam’s sin, and adding another fully developed genetic material, also corrupted by Adam’s sin, to it is NOT evolution in action. It is skipping steps to ensure that one will remain deceived.
So, in other words… when you ask for evidence, evidence is presented, you will still say – nope, can’t be.
You are intellectually dishonest.
More like intellectually clueless.
That isn’t evidence. That is just cheating. Until evolutionists start at the beginning, they have no evidence for anything the say.
Ah… so you redefine beginning, science, and the like to continue to deny what you don’t want to accept. Yeah… that’s honest.