Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount

[Bruce Bostwick]

I particularly liked the humble suggestion that Schlafly already had a  
fairly easily accessible and relatively plentiful supply of E.coli at  
his disposal, that he was welcome to use to isolate just about any  
suitable strain to use for his own verification of the experimental  
results.  And the not so subtle hints whose gist, more or less, was,  
"This principle is called reproducibility .. it's one of the  
fundamental principles of the scientific method itself."

I haven't laughed like that in a long time.  It was a truly beautiful  
and glorious moment.  :)

On Jun 30, 2008, at 7:55 PM, William T Goodall wrote:

> As a result, Lenski was apparently very annoyed, and his second
> letter is far more assertive.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,  
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance  
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,  
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new  
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight  
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."  --  
attributed to Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein