Disingenuous Science in E. Coli Evolution Experiments

Head out Folly Road past Stinking Lake (which is not as bad as it sounds), keep going toward Deception Pass and you will reach the Darwin Ranch. If allowed access, ask them about Dr. Richard Lenski. The ranch hands will probably break into grins and invite you to lunch.

Evolutionary scientists like to study bacteria. One reason is that bacteria can be coaxed into having a huge number of generations. Lenski has over 75,000 Escherichia coli generations, and claims to have proof that the Bearded Buddha was right. Not so fact, Doc!

Colorized electron micrograph of Escherichia coli bacteria O157:H7. Image: CDC.gov (usage does not imply endorsement)

Those with Atheism Spectrum Disorder and other evolutionists celebrate how this "proof" sticks it to creationists, but they are being extremely disingenuous with this malarkey. (It's who they are and what they do.) For one thing, Darwinian evolution is onward and upward, adding traits and organisms eventually change into something else. This isn't that, Theodore. Nor is it logical.

E. coli are still E. coli. In addition, the claim of gaining a function is an old evolutionist trick of ignoring pertinent data, such as a dubious claim that a mutation was beneficial. Also, utilizing citrate is not unique to Lenski's work because E. coli do that in the wild. Also, the old "loss of function is an example of evolution" trick. Evolutionists use bad science and even deception to deny the Creator and keep Darwin's Victorian myth going.

Back in February 1988, Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski began a long-term experiment to look at how repeatable evolution was. He decided to use Escherichia coli bacteria for the experiment and filled 12 flasks with a glucose-based growth media. Since then, each population is propagated every day by transferring 1% of the previous day’s culture into an equal volume of fresh medium. The bacteria grow quickly in a few hours. However, the glucose runs out once they’ve grown 100-fold. The cells then basically enter stasis until the next day, when 1% of each population is transferred into fresh medium. Dr. Lenski further explains,

To read the rest, head on over to "Richard Lenski, E. coli, and the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE)." You may want to also check out "Bacteria ‘evolving in the lab’? ‘A poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists’?"