Bacteria and evolution don’t get along so well together. In fact, bacteria just refuses to play games by evolution’s rules.
Evolution appears to be a bit schizophrenic when it comes to which organism will evolve the most. Let’s say that I.R. Bacterium (most bacteria self-replicate) is fruitful and multiplies at an amazing rate of…oh…about a million in only 7 hours. Wow, that’s a lot of room for variation and mutation.
Humans, on the other hand, have a very long reproduction rate and only a few offspring. Yet, if evolution is to be believed, natural selection would have many more beneficial mutations to choose from in bacteria.
So why isn’t bacteria and evolution a much better relationship?
And what about M.E. Microbe? He started colonies in almost every environment on earth, and the number of Microbes is so ginormous they don’t even bother to publish their addresses anymore. But even with the amazing amount of Microbes in their family tree, the number of different ones is not so large. They just don’t appear to have any evolving features. Odd, isn’t it?
These examples are what scientists call “broad experimental verifications”. And thanks to extremely powerful microscopes and technology, they don’t have to guess whether or not a rapidly reproducing species will produce a wide variety of variations and beneficial mutations.
They can simply observe them in action.
According to the Cornell University Department of Microbiology, most bacteria reproduce through a process called binary fission. They say how “conceptually this is a simple process”. But they go on to say how in order “to remain viable and competitive, a bacterium must divide at the right time, in the right place, and must provide each offspring with a complete copy of its essential genetic material…”
You know…”essential genetic material” implies that what’s there needs to be there in order to exist. Guess what? In that microscopic world it’s all essential. And in order for a bacterium to “provide each offspring” what it needs to exist, there has to be a complex code of information. And that leads me to the conclusion I first reached when I was only 13…
God is the ultimate coder, and I trust him with my information.
In Faith, Hope, and Love”
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