What is your take on evolution/old age earth?

[lestatdark]

Slimebeast said:

Highwaystar, I dont have time right now but Ill come back to your post in length later, but 3 quick points:

1. I never said bacteria evolve slowly. My argument is something else and it seems like you just like everyone is missing the point. Totally radically missing it. I am saying that bacteria have failed to evolve into higher order organisms, despite having amazing potential to evolve very rapidly. And that is the mystery you and others are denying to the point that it's becoming ridiculous. If you guys can't.. I don't know what to say. The intellectual capacity of some people...

2. You said "For a bacteria to become resistant to penicillin is a big evolution". It certainly is not. A simple single point mutation can be enough to alter a protein to prevent the antiobiotcs molecule to attach to the bacteria. Most antiobiotic resistance is simple like that.

3. That picture you got of the humanoid skulls. It can be devided in two groups: roughy half of the skulls are from old apes and half of them are Homo Sapiens.

Don't preach about intellectual capacity, when you're being intellectually dishonest about trying to comprehend what other people are trying to teach you about this particular field. I'll say it once more, because you seem to skip that part. Bacteria don't have neither the necessity to evolve into higher order organisms. Because prokaryotic cells functions are in most cases more advanced than eukaryotic cells, which need to work in tandem with one another to effectuate some of the functions that a single prokaryotic cell have.

This would be correct if you discarded the entire DNA repair systems that bacteria have to repair these kind of mutations. InDel mutations are amongst the easiest to be repaired. The examples of evolution through simple point mutation are extremely scarce and mostly irrelevant, unlike the case of MSRA adaptability. 

Recombination, transfection, transformation and transduction are the primary forces behind genomic evolution in bacteria.