[GourmetDan]

"The bacteria created a new protein out of an old gene and now could digest nylon; thus new information was created. The information necessary to digest nylon was created. This was not Devolution, it was evolution, and a gain of information, the exact thing that the poster said was impossible."

You have a very narrow definition of 'new' since you admit that it exists in non-nylon environments but dies out.

[allmendream]

It was new when they made it. It needn't be novel to be new. The mutations for producing an enzyme capable of digesting nylon might well have existed thousands or hundreds of thousands of times in the past for brief moments; but there was no survival advantage to having it and so it was lost through natural selection.

How is new information on how to digest nylon, an adaptation that led to an entire new way of life for these bacteria, considered devolution and not evolution? By what criteria?