> Now wait a second - I happen to believe in evolution just as much as the > next geologist, but it doesn't bother you at all that we have *never* > observed speciation? I mean, bacteria produce generations *very* > rapidly. If no scientist has ever been able to produce speciation in > bacteria, I think that that signals a *major* flaw in our understanding of > evolution. > > JDG
Of course bacteria evolution has been observed. There is plenty of talk about diseases that are now resisting old anti-biotics. An isn't that the whole idea behind the Anthrax scare, the fact that scientist have been changing the spores to make it more virelent? I know they have evolved fruit flies, they have short life spans so it's easy to have a hundred generations in one year. Have you ever hear about (crab? clam?) fishermen from Japan. There is some species that every once in a while the shell would look like a face. The fishermen would throw them back, thinking it was the soul of a dead prince. Now of course everything they catch has the face. Even though it's man made, it's still a case where selection has shaped the future generations. I think the problem is that you can never offer observable but not forced evolution. But that was the whole point of Darwin's original observations. There were four islands somewhat near each other off of Chile, they all had finches but each were a little different from each other. Darwin was very religious, but instead of thinking 'God put these slightly different finches on each island' he figured that they adapted. Kevin T. X-men evolution
