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“Nylon”-Digesting Bacteria are Almost Certainly Not a Modern Strain
Proslogion ^ | 7-12-18 | Jay L. Wyle (earned PhD in nuclear chemistry.)

Posted on 07/13/2018 11:19:47 AM PDT by fishtank

“Nylon”-Digesting Bacteria are Almost Certainly Not a Modern Strain

Jul. 12, 2018

This marine bacterium has the ability to digest nylon waste products, despite the fact that it doesn’t live in an environment that contains nylon waste products. (click for credit)

Evolutionists are fond of stating “facts” that aren’t anywhere near factual. For example, when I was at university, I was taught, as fact, that bacteria evolved the genes needed to resist antibiotics after modern antibiotics were made. As with most evolutionary “facts,” this turned out to be nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of evolutionists. We now know that the genes needed for antibiotic resistance existed in the Middle Ages and back when mammoths roamed the earth. They have even been found in bacteria that have never been exposed to animals, much less any human-made materials.

Of course, being shown to be dead wrong doesn’t produce any caution among evolutionists when it comes to proclaiming the “evidence” for evolution.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.drwile.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; nylon
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This marine bacterium has the ability to digest nylon waste products, despite the fact that it doesn’t live in an environment that contains nylon waste products. (click for credit)

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1 posted on 07/13/2018 11:19:47 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: fishtank

... or there was an earlier advanced civilization ... with or without the aliens.


2 posted on 07/13/2018 11:22:45 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: fishtank

3 posted on 07/13/2018 11:24:31 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Rurudyne

Ingesting Nylons, is this some new millennial fad?


4 posted on 07/13/2018 11:25:36 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

That is a hilarious painting!


5 posted on 07/13/2018 11:27:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: fishtank

Evolution is a religion. This article would be heresy to the evolutionists.


6 posted on 07/13/2018 11:30:02 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: tet68

I would it suggest it to one....


7 posted on 07/13/2018 11:33:17 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: reasonisfaith

No, evolution is not a religion and never has been except in the minds of those incapable or too lazy to read and understand. A trip to the field to observe now and then might be enlightening too.


8 posted on 07/13/2018 11:34:10 AM PDT by bert ((K. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: Yaelle

I like that style of drawing and use of color.


9 posted on 07/13/2018 11:36:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: fishtank
Andromeda Strain had a bug that did something like that.
10 posted on 07/13/2018 11:38:02 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Ironically, and probably unintentionally, your username checks out.


11 posted on 07/13/2018 11:40:25 AM PDT by ThornJ56
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To: Sans-Culotte

1957(?), oh what fun we had before OSHA, was involved with workplace. At least 8 violations.


12 posted on 07/13/2018 11:42:28 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: bert
It can be according to Ruse
13 posted on 07/13/2018 11:44:33 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: wally_bert

(I loved it so much I looked him up, he did a zillion of those. I want a print. So funny and the leering guys in the background of every one. This was probably a frustrated peeping Tom. I love that mid century kind of cheesy style.)


14 posted on 07/13/2018 11:46:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: fishtank

“As with most evolutionary “facts,” this turned out to be nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of evolutionists. We now know that the genes needed for antibiotic resistance existed in the Middle Ages “

Utter nonsense. The genes were in the population at a low level and were selected for when the bacteria were exposed to antibiotics. They occurred as random mutations. Until antibiotics there was no advantage to the organisms that had them. That’s how evolution works.

So bacteria having a gene that degrades nylon is not surprising. Put them in an environment rich in nylon and you will see an increase in the number of bacteria with the gene.


15 posted on 07/13/2018 11:56:16 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Rurudyne
... or there was an earlier advanced civilization ... with or without the aliens.

Yes, ancient man invented nylon and a lot of other amazing things, but bacteria developed the ability to eat most of them.

16 posted on 07/13/2018 12:23:54 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ('Kill'-google,TWITR,FACEBK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Kozak

Alleopathy. Gene frequency vs. De novo genetic instruction. You cannot say the gene was there before...you were not there and did not test for it...no one did or could. If there was no nylon before its modern synthesis what is the reason and selective pressure for its conservation? Since there are no known nylon deposits in nature I would guess the degradation system probably does something else first....also “evolution” doesnt work that way...you have confused selection of preexistent genes vs de novo addition of completely new genes..biologically and chemically and physically and ecologically the processes are completely different.


17 posted on 07/13/2018 12:27:06 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: fishtank

Evolutionists have never said animals or bacteria create new genes in response to their environment. That’s Lysenkoism, not science.


18 posted on 07/13/2018 12:31:57 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Yaelle
That is a hilarious painting!

Almost all of the pin-up art by Art Frahm features women with their panties somehow falling down. I always thought he went overboard with that concept and did not have a lot of imagination. But now that we know about the nylon-destroying bacteria, maybe he was onto something.

19 posted on 07/13/2018 12:32:24 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Um.... are you Arthur Frahm yourself??? Come on, your screen name is a giveaway.....


20 posted on 07/13/2018 12:40:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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