Evolution can occur quickly and change how populations interact [Lab demonstration]

Cornell University ^ | 03 July 2006 | Susan Lang

[PatrickHenry]

Everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Lunatic Fringe]

Yeah, but what about LAB DEMONSTRATIONS????

[MeanWestTexan]

So much for "can't be reproduced in a lab."

Of course, the fall back(s) will be:

(1)"this proves intelligent design, not evolution!"

(2) "yeah, but it's still an XYZ. It didn't change into a ABC." and/or

(3) "These traits already existed; there's nothing new here."

[stylin19a]

you mean like how certain bacteria can develop a resistance to antibiotics ? which is basically called adaptation ?

[Fighting Irish]

This fast .......

[dread78645]

"But it's still an algae!"

[bobdsmith]

adaptation is a type of evolution too

[Doc Savage]

I'd expect a true secular, anti-God, Darwin sychophant like yourself to go down with his sinking ship, but really, this is pathetic.

You really must find a new hobby. Evo is a sick, twisted myth, and to brag that you are a true brainwahed Kool-Aid drinker only diminishes you further,...if that's possible.

[MeanWestTexan]

"adaptation is a type of evolution too"

Yep.

Synonyms according to the thesaurus on my desk.

[Physicist]

I'd expect a true secular, anti-God, Darwin sychophant like yourself to go down with his sinking ship, but really, this is pathetic.

Yeah...playing the "evidence" card like that. Shameful.

[MeanWestTexan]

That was a really constructive post.

The knife-edged logical manner in which the post addressed and countered the facts and arguments in the article really made your true point better that anything I have ever seen.

And the best part was that you did no sink to hyperbole or personal attacks!

[Robwin]

Oh, sweet. A scientist has demonstrated adaptation occurs. Who woulda guessed? And?

[Stultis]

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[RobRoy]

>>the algae "evolved" from a type that grows quickly to a type that resists being eaten.<<

I noticed the word "evolved" is in quotes. Why is that? The begged question is, did the type that resists being eaten already exist, albeit in small numbers, before the aledged "evolution" took place? If it did, then this is not evolution of an algae, it is evolution of the characteristcs of a population of algae.


If you have a part of the country that has a population made up equally of black bears and Polar bears, and one day the temperature drops substantially, and it stays that way for ten years, you will notice that there will be a lot more polar bears, and many less black bears. But nothing evolved, even if the black bears died out completely. Natural selection would simply have chosen the strongest of two EXISTING types, elimintating one. The diversity of the poplulation was reduced, not expanded.

[DungeonMaster]

Exactly. They need to prove that an actual change in DNA occurred not that a particular trait was favored but already existed.

[MHGinTN]

Civil discussion placemarker ...

[MeanWestTexan]

Is the "it's not evolution, it's adaption" line the new 2nd law of thermodynamics style talking point?

I've been avoiding reading more than the article on these threads because of such luddite nonsense.

Bit like saying, "it's not a dozen eggs; it's twelve eggs, you crevo-idiot. Can't you see?!@"

[MeanWestTexan]

That was a good and civil post.

Wrong, mind you, but good and civil. :)