Topic: Evolution
Quote: Also another example put forward is a bacteria that can only sustain itself by eating Nylon. The theory goes - nylon is a recent invention therefore this bacteria must have eolved recently.\nWhat it suggests however is that a portion of an existing population would have died if not for nylon... the bug has to have nylon, or it will die.\nIt is akin to looking at a portion of the human population who would die from heart-trouble. But thankfully we've now got artificial hearts, therefore this portion can survive. They are not a new species of human, but live only because of a recent invention.
Response: As Mach pointed out, you (Montalban) are arguing with yourself here.\nYou stated that "bacteria needing nylon to survive" is put forth as evidence for evolution. Then you said that an alternate view was that there are some bacteria that need nylon to survive.\nAnyway, an actual alternate view is that the experiments performed to determine whether the bacteria could survive on nylon alone could not have been exhaustive. There may still be a natural substance on which the bacteria survives. It may even be similar to nylon, but it has yet to be discovered. This is a big maybe, though.
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