I read with great interest an article claiming that evolution – specifically, the evolution of the ability of E. coli to eat citrate, something they have never been able to do before – has been seen in the lab. This isn’t my field, of course, but I had some thoughts about it… then read Carl Zimmer’s article which lays everything out very clearly. This is a fascinating development… and of course is yet another slap in the face to creationists. Not that it matters: they’ll never, ever admit that there’s any evidence that what they’re saying is so much eyewash. Why would this particular evidence in a lab under controlled conditions make them want to drop their blinders any more than the already existing nearly endless stream of evidence they are so well practiced at ignoring?
Evolution in a flask
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