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.
~~~~~~~~ A bad Samaritan averaging above average men (c) DOOM