Evolution Before Our Eyes Turns 50,000!

I would guess this has been posted, blogged or forumed about before and since I'm relatively new here I apologize to the TA vets if this is a repeat post.

However I still can't get over the simplistic beauty of the Lenski experiments. It is perhaps the best contemporary evidence and ammunition for atheists when it comes to arguing evolution.

A brief summary of the experiment:

Since 1998 Richard Lenski and his team at his Michigan State lab, have been watching e.coli evolve. Yes, evolve. Right before their eyes. This evolution happens because e.coli go through living and dying in an extremely fast way. Recently the experiment crossed the 50,000th generation barrier! The results have been dramatic. The e.coli have evolved and in doing so have acutally adapted to their environment.

So when discussing proof of evolution with a believer I would encourage everyone to read up on this experiment. Two great resources about the experiment are found 1) in Richard Dawkin's most recent book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution and 2) on Richard Lenski's experiment's website http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ where you can see a live ticker of new generations and read the latest news on the experiment. Really incredible stuff.

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Comment by Doug Reardon on March 28, 2011 at 10:18pm
Unfortunately, faith and belief will triumph over evidence and reason almost every time!
Comment by Walter Maki on March 29, 2011 at 12:09am
Cool, I'll have to check it out.
Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on March 29, 2011 at 6:05pm
Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on March 29, 2011 at 8:46pm

Apart from me considering Evolution to be a fact and fully proven here is one of the main reason I try to promote it. These people just set me off when I hear them. We should all do our bit to counter this incidious child abuse.

http://www.thinkatheist.com/video/creationism-propaganda-for-1

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