Feb 03 2010
Measuring Evolution
If you can measure something, I would say it’s real. Well, at least if others are capable of measuring it, too, and your definition of what it is you are actually measuring is concrete vs. vague.
With each passing month, with each passing dozens of studies, it becomes progressively more ludicrous for creationists to deny the reality of evolution. Consider these two recent pieces of research.
1) Evolution Caught in the Act: Scientists Measure How Quickly Genomes Change
[Researchers] followed all genetic changes in five lines of the mustard relative Arabidopsis thaliana that occurred during 30 generations. In the genome of the final generation they then searched for differences to the genome of the original ancestor.
The painstakingly detailed comparison of the entire genome revealed that in over the course of only a few years some 20 DNA building blocks, so called base pairs, had been mutated in each of the five lines.
Ah, yes, the slow, sure march of mutation-led evolution. Measured and documented.
Of course, the “march” doesn’t lead to some anthropocentrically-meaningful endpoint. Just to a better fit with changing environments.
2. Researchers Track Evolution and Spread of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Across Hospitals and Continents
Warning! Hard-core science ahead.
Colleagues at ITQB in Portugal and Susana Gardete, a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Disease at Rockefeller, prepared DNA from more than 40 of the Brazilian MRSA isolates recovered between 1982 and 2003 from a variety of sources in Europe, South America and Asia. These preparations were analyzed by colleagues at the Sanger Institute using a new, very high throughput DNA sequencing technology.
The findings reported in Science provide an unparalleled view of the evolutionary history and age of the Brazilian MRSA clone. It was possible to show that the most likely birthplace of Brazilian MRSA was actually Europe, from where it spread to South America and Asia. From there, it continued to evolve and was reintroduced to Europe at a later date.
Yah, sure. The above sounds like crazy scientists deluding themselves with their evolution dogma, doesn’t it. (Not!) Boy, they sure go to great lengths to pull the wool over their eyes and the eyes of the public. Evolution, shmevolution. What’s even more amazing is that thousands of researchers with different political leanings, religious beliefs (or none) and general philosophies of life can work in relative unison to perpetuate the hoax.
Back to reality now. The truth? The “science” of Creationism isn’t so much science as it is a means for believers to keep their heads buried in the ancient sands of a mythology.
