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To: TigerPaw who wrote (63246)	11/24/2014 8:19:22 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 69300

Because that's what happened in the experiment I referenced. Two new genes appeared in lab cultures after a few months. The claim as you stated was that bacteria evolved the ability to digest this polymer sometime between 1935 and 1975 when you claim the bacteria was discovered. That is a 40 year period, or about 700,000 generations in bacteria time, and that's 700,000 generations FOR EACH BACTERIA alive in 1935 so you have to multiply those odds by hundreds of trillion bacteria to understand how many events might have resulted in what appears to be a simple change. We don't know when the two new genes appeared in pseudomonas and flavobacterium except it would have had to have been after the 1930's. BUT the samples of pseudomonas from NZ which were thousands of miles away from nylon mfg (and btw I've pointed out it's a nylon WASTE product produced in the manufacture of nylon not nylon itself that's at issue so don't bother saying there was nylon cloth in NZ - it would be irrelevant) - these developed the new genes in a lab in a few months.

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