Prospect wrote:There are so many things wrong with what you just say it scares me to think of it:
1. In what way did the experiment go wrong? The experiment went perfectly fine.
Did you read the full account you posted?
Boraas (1983) reported the induction of multicellularity in a strain of Chlorella pyrenoidosa (since reclassified as C. vulgaris) by predation. He was growing the unicellular green alga in the first stage of a two stage continuous culture system as for food for a flagellate predator, Ochromonas sp., that was growing in the second stage. Due to the failure of a pump, flagellates washed back into the first stage. Within five days a colonial form of the Chlorella appeared. It rapidly came to dominate the culture. The colony size ranged from 4 cells to 32 cells. Eventually it stabilized at 8 cells. This colonial form has persisted in culture for about a decade. The new form has been keyed out using a number of algal taxonomic keys. They key out now as being in the genus Coelosphaerium, which is in a different family from Chlorella..
2. Do you honestly think that cats magically transform into whales? Of course not. There are things called transitionary forms. These are steps that take thousands of years each. There is proof of these consistent steps:
Figure 3.1.1. Comparison of the forelimbs of various relatives of modern birds. Forelimbs of (A) Ornitholestes, a theropod dinosaur, (B) Archaeopteryx, (C) Sinornis, an archaic bird from the lower Cretaceous, and (D) the wing of a modern chicken (modified from Carroll 1988, p. 340; Carroll 1997, p. 309).
Confirmation:
These are assumptions. You know you posted you hate to repeat yourself? Well, I think we can say the same thing. Evolution has been the main topic in the Science Forum since the day we created this forum. In fact evolution was the main reason we established the Science Forum. So before you continue rehashing what has been discussed why not do a search so we don't have to repeat ourselves?
And no, I don't believe cats evolved into whales. I believe God created the animal kingdom and then allowed evolution within limited parameters to complete the diversity within a genus, or maybe (and I emphasize the maybe) within a family group.