From WIKI, sorry
Flavobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria that consists of ten recognized species, as well as three newly proposed species.
Nylon-eating bacteria are a strain of Flavobacterium that is capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture.
When we get down to actually understanding the science and specifically the nomenclature used we see that the pro-evolutionist use terms to mislead.
Imagine a new form of life appearing, seemingly out of nowhere, the result of manmade intervention and barely a peep from the news media and biologists across the globe yelling "EUREKA" at the top of their lungs.
Why didn't this happen?
We throw the term "mutation" around as the holy grail of material evolution all the while knowing, by observation and countless experiments, that mutations in living organisms are always detrimental, unless inherent, "programed" in the design.
All the while forgetting that life and the byproducts of life are fundamentally carbon based.
What do we eat but the remnants of carbon based life forms, whether animal, vegetable or fruit.
What is petroleum but the long process of decomposition and geologic pressure on plants which convert carbon into oxygen.
Man intern can now utilize the products born on this great planet to his benefit. This includes carbon based petroleum and its byproducts which bacteria eat and have eaten for millennia.
So along comes a common bacteria called flavobacterium which just so happens to be able to eat what? Why "carbon" of course, which it converts to energy and low and behold it finds some in the byproducts of a carbon based petroleum product called nylon. And, we call it a mutation!! Not a discovery or a rediscovery mind you, but a mutation which then pricks the ears of every evolutionists until someone, which actually occurred very early in this "discovery", noted that this particular "strain" of flavobacterium is doing exactly what all the other strains, surreptitiously called species by the "nomenclaturists", do and that is fundamentally eat carbon in whatever form it can find as an inherent, morphological, design.
What happens here is "neglect". The evolutionist neglect to inform. Such is the extent and result of the forced orthodoxy of the evolutionists, neo-Darwinists.
The bacteria creates an enzyme inherent to its function which effects carbon, not manufactured nylon. This ability is achieved through lateral gene transfer which all bacteria are capable of providing.
I keep trying to tell you Alun that the science here is not as simple as you would believe. It is highly complex. There are numerous types of mutations, not all critical but normal to the process. I tried to talk about mutation rates before but my information got confused. Something spoken very little about is genomic decay and irreversible mutational faults.
Sorry Alun but you are being mislead by a well oiled propaganda machine.
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