This is for Paul in response his apparent attacks on my post about the neat experiment. I said I didn't want to start a discussion of evolution, at least not in General Science, so I am bringing it over here.

Originally Posted By: Paul
24 years !
I thought that evolution required millions of years.

now it only requires 24 years !

what does that say about evolution?


Well, it says that a lot of people thought wrong. Keep in mind that bacteria live a lot faster than large animals. So that the evolution of the ability to metabolize citrates occurred after 30,000 generations. If you count the number of generations since the start of the evolution of man from his split with the rest of the apes, about 7 million years ago, then we are talking about 350,000 generations. There were a lot of evolutionary changes in those years, so one major mutation (actually it took 2) in 30,000 generations isn't too fast.

Bill Gill


C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.