You're claiming on scientific grounds that something occurred, is occurring, and will occur into perpetuity. The onus is on you to prove it. Produce observable evidence of microbes mutating into maggots, mice, and men. Demanding that others disprove that which you believe is true, but which you admit proudly no one's witnessed or can witness, ever, isn't "science," it's "psychosis."

In the presence of hugely popular arcade types like Gears of War, I'm hardly about to expect them to shoot themselves in the foot by releasing another simulation, just for my benefit. They're going to do what brings in the most money.

In his mind he already has by blurting out those stupid unscientific mantras in every post.

Want me to disprove the theory of evolution?

FINCHES TO FINCHES!

Relevant, since you're trying to make the new use of citrate something much more than it is. What you're really doing -- still -- is hoping to justify a wild, irrational, and superstitious leap from bacteria evolving into . . . bacteria to that bacteria becoming Man.

That's absurd, especially coming from someone's whose entire argument is, "No, no one's seen it, no one will see it, and no one can see it, ever! That proves it's true! If you disagree, you don't get Science!"

Instead of demonstrating at least a modicum of integrity, you have to impugn falsely my character and shamelessly lie about what you've "proven." That which cannot be observed and tested cannot be "falsifiable." Speaking of a "complete lack of understanding of even the most basic scientific methods"! By your own admission, you can offer no observable fact showing your fiction to be true, so instead you scrape and grovel and conjure up out of whole cloth, making vast (il)logical leaps, assuming causation from correlation.

First, E. Coli already "used" citrate as an energy source under anaerobic conditions.

Second, E. Coli's particular use of citrate was one factor distinguishing it from other bacteria. It's "new" use is, in fact, nothing new for other bacteria.

Third, though the mechanism by which this change occurred has not been published, it appears that no new program arose in the cell, but rather that something broke, allowing continual transportation of citrate into the cell (or something similar).

Fourth, Lenski's E. Coli were not metabolizing citrate where they couldn't previously; citrate is generated and utilized in normal oxidative metabolism of glucose and other carbohydrates.

Fifth, and obviously, Lenski's bacteria are still bacteria.

You've still got no evidence of Man arising by accident from the mud by way of maggots, mice, and monkeys.

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