(April 9, 2016 at 11:12 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Um... what do you mean "no new genetic information"?
Where do you think the biosynthetic pathway to digest nylon was co-opted FROM!?
ETA: Also... do you seriously not understand the difference between "law" and "theory" in science?!? Your statement, above, seems to indicate that you don't. Theories don't get "promoted" into laws. Theories are made up of laws.
I said no new genetic information meaning no new or even variations of genes for those three types of resistance developed. There is just a difference in what organisms contain them.
And I don't know how nylonase was formed, but I bet it wasn't mutation or a gene duplication. It was probably just a different organization of existing proteins that allowed it to do it. I'm not too familiar with it, so sorry if that is way off.
And I seriously do understand it. You should read it again. It says "and technically it is NEVER possible to move it into a law". Don't put words in my mouth. I never said the word promote. I said it can reach a point where it is unreasonable to reject it.
