Originally Posted by Fubarski
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
E. coli is a modern day single cell organism.


Nope.

Billions of years old.

Learned that right here in this thread.


No. You are intentionally misrepresenting my position:

Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Current indications are life began surprisingly quickly after the formation of the earth.

As for e.coli, I have no expectation that it was around 4 billion years ago. It's a common bacteria we are all familiar with so I used it's rates of reproduction as a proxy for bacteria's in general.

All total, there's over 700 strains of e.coli, with greater genetic differences then there is between humans and c-h-impanzee's. The strains best known for killing people, E. coli O157:H7, was only identified in 1982. So e.coli isn't "still just ecoli", it continues to evolve and change as well.


Since you are back to the subject of e.coli, are the other members of the genus Escherichia the results of common descent, or special creation.

Let me refresh your mind with a partial list:

E. albertii
E. fergusonii
E. hermannii
E. marmotae[2]
E. vulneris

E.albertii wasn't identified until 2003.

What do you believe in this respect and why?

Last edited by antelope_sniper; 07/27/19.

You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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