Re: [asa] Lab speciation

On 6/4/08, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au> wrote (in part):
>
> (1) Are my remarks re "detrimental, usually fatal" effects of mutations a
> fair assessment of the data - or an expression of ignorance of same?
>
I think this has been answered already.

> (2) How does the finding in the snippet from your post (above) strike
> practicing biologists? Is it remarkable or merely mundane?
>
I'm not a biologist, but a humble (retired) physicist/computer
engineer. As a person who studies this stuff from a distance, what I
see in t his experiment is a pretty neat -- maybe novel because of the
time frame involved -- demonstration of evolution in action. Yes, they
are still bacteria. But something new has come along in the
evolutionary process.

Maybe this has been done before. But this experiment appears to stand
out (to me).

> (2a) If remarkable, is it so because it confirms what has been suspected but
> not experimentally open to confirmation, or because it is actually quite
> unexpected?

I think that SOMETHING like this is not unexpected; the expectation
follows from what we know already about evolution.
>
> Thanks for a very informative piece ... .You are welcome. The world is so strange!
For example, see my review of THE GOD EFFECT, Quantum Entanglement,
Science's Strangest Phenomenon, by Brian Clegg. at

www.burgy.50megs.com/htm

Burgy

Burgy

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Received on Thu Jun 5 10:07:25 2008