Richard Lenski responds
Thanks to bascule at SFN for this link.
Richard Lenski, whose groundbreaking work witnessed the evolution of citrate-using E. coli in a mere 44,000 generations over 20 years of work.
He responds directly to conservapedia’s ignorant creationism populace published by conservapedia (amazingly enough) here:
Lenski’s second letter is particularly good, filled with lots of good biochemistry, scientific philosophy and general good sense. A highly recommended read.
Discuss the exchange here.
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June 25th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Conservapedia links to it from their front page with this text:
“Lenski’s latest response to a request for his data is revealing … about Lenski’s attitude. Take a good look at the attitude our tax dollars are paying for.”
Yeah, nice comeback, LOL.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:33 am
yeah… we pay taxes so we deserve to be spoon fed information about a complicated area of research that we’ll reject anyway in favor of our creation myth.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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