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Topic subjectE. Coli bacteria
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3860, E. Coli bacteria
Posted by nonaime, Tue Sep-23-03 11:15 PM
doubles its population size every 20 minutes...20 minutes per generation. Now let's just say we've been scientifically studying it for the past 40 years.

40 years = 14,600 days (ignoring leap years)
14,600 days = 350,400 hours
350,400 hours = 21,024,000 minutes

At 20 minutes per generation, that would be 1,051,200 generations of E. Coli bacteria over a span of 40 years.

How long would it take for a primate to go through a million generations? Well let's choose 10 years per generation for the average primate (Human is like 30-40). So it would take primates 10 million years to go through a million generations.

Well, the oldest hominid skeleton is about . Let's put things together. 700,000 generations (7 million years / 10 years per generation) to go from ape-like to man...and nobody reports "evolution" like this in the 40 years of studying E.Coli!?!?

Either evolution (not adaptation) is a sham OR some of you 40 year olds out there better start worrying about that E. Coli that's been in your GI all your life. They might evolve into a sovereign nation...with guns.