Mouse evolution - Anti-creationist ammo

[Arrow]

I just found this at SCIAM.com: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... 9EC588EF21

It's a brief article on some rather fast evolution found in Chicago's mice. Basically, the genetic code of the white-footed mouse has undergone some major changes in the past 150 years, most of it due to human activities.

It's a quick read and I figured it may be another nail for everyone here to use in your debates.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

So, it's kind of like the peppered moths of Industrial-era England? Another example of observed adaption, I guess.

Excellent...</Mr. Burns>

[Exonerate]

So, it's kind of like the peppered moths of Industrial-era England? Another example of observed adaption, I guess.

Excellent...</Mr. Burns>

But only the phenotypic ratios changed! That's not evolution!</Fundie>

Would've been nice if they included more information besides it just having a rapidly changing genome...

[Peregrin Toker]

So, it's kind of like the peppered moths of Industrial-era England? Another example of observed adaption, I guess.

Creationists still attempt to gloss over the peppered moths with all sorts of babble.

[Grand Moff Yenchin]

[Knee-jerk creationist reaction] It's STILL a mouse! Only microevolution exists!! God created each after it's kind!![/Knee-jerk creationist reaction]

[Admiral Valdemar]

I could bring up the same about autotrophic rotifers becoming heterotrophic in under 80 years in the 19th Century, but the Fundies would roll a +6 Wall of Ignorance Attack and that would be that.

[Darth Gojira]

Creationist(with fingers stuck in ears): I'm not listening, I'm not listening, lalalalalala...........

[SyntaxVorlon]

[Knee-jerk creationist reaction] It's STILL a mouse! Only microevolution exists!! God created each after it's kind!![/Knee-jerk creationist reaction]

There's a fundie or two like that on the aclu forums. Go over and give them a going over.