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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 07 2006,10:01   

You have GOT to check out this thread.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/787

DaveScot found a paper about how bacteria, when stressed out by a harsh environment, will turn off their mutation-repair mechanisms and do other things which promote mutations, in order to rapidly evolve. Somehow he thinks that this is evidence against "random mutation plus natural selection" as an agent of evolution.

check it out before it's deleted.

   
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