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These threads always amuse me. I can convert Escherichia into Salmonella in the lab using only techniques that are known to occur naturally in a couple of weeks. Am I "forcing evolution"? Note that this isn't converting one species into another, but converting one genus into another. This is 50 year old stuff. Maybe it is so easy because our definitions of genera and species are not exact. But if one genus can be converted into another in a matter of days, one finch species into another species in thousands of years is easy to see.


336 posted on 08/03/2004 8:54:01 PM PDT by furball4paws ("Facts are very stubborn things" - Peter Wimsey)
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Someone will soon claim that these are of the same "kind" without defining "kind" of course.


337 posted on 08/03/2004 9:34:00 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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