given that the bacteria was made in a laboratory.
Yep, and Man-of-War (a famous race horse) was made in a stable using the same techniques. It is called selective breeding. It works wonderfully for developing strains of life forms that have very well documented characteristics. That way you know where they started off and can easily determine what changes are taking place.
this isn't proof of anything but making a bacteria strain
in a laboratory then testing it for 24 years , then
claiming that it never had metabolized citrates before
might be considered slightly underhanded.
Well, it only did it in one of 12 strains, and it took 30,000 generations before it started doing it. That doesn't seem too underhanded. In fact it seems like a really good test. It came up with something unexpected, but which matched the theory of evolution extremely well.
Bill Gill
