Clutch

Aldehyde,

It's honest and "big" of you to admit that your question was ill-informed. Theist or atheist, that kind of forthrightness is rare. Good on you.

By the way, when I was growing up on the farm, I often found that fenceposts would turn into cows overnight. Cows exactly resembling cows we already owned, who would, fortuitously, turn into fenceposts at the same time. You can imagine the confusion this caused in the morning!

Gooch's dad

In case aldehyde or any other creationist complains about the laboratory bacteria experiments as being 'forced' or 'unnatural':

Here is a great summary of a wild bacteria evolving into a radically different strain

<a href="http://www.nmsr.org/nylon.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nmsr.org/nylon.htm</a>

The nylon-eating bacteria is a lovely example of a frame-shift mutation producing drastically new traits in an organism. And since nylon has only been around since the late 1930's, creationists would have a hard time arguing that the nylon-eating ability was 'always there'.



-Kelly