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January 17th, 2006, 01:45 AM
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I'm pretty sure both Otago University and the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle would smack you around for quoting them as a "source" for that mindless drivel, Relyt...
To evolve means to change the perfectly structured and organized genetic information of that bacteria.
Perfectly structured??? Ever look at a bacteria under a microscope?
A human being, for example, isn't "perfectly structured". Human beings have a black spot in their eyes, which is an imperfection. Nothing is "perfectly structured" - far from. Bacteria and virus strains mutate all the time, as they adopt to more and more hostile environments. Simple examples include the flu and ebola (oh wait... I'm sure you're going to tell me that God himself "manufactured" ebola in a couple of dozen variations)...
However, any chance mutation or natural selection as Darwin implies, would alter the DNA Language of the original bacteria and would have killed it. Much as a chance mutation in a computer program would cause it to fail.
What about genetically altered corn? Altering its DNA didn't kill it, did it?
Darwin got his ideas when witnessing finches on the Galapagos islands: he saw about a dozen different variations, each a finch yet totally different (the finches on islands with cacti, for example, have longer beaks than the ones that live on islands without cacti...).
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