....for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Psalm 139:14
"Researchers at the University of York are part of a team of scientist that has discovered how bacteria can restart their 'outboard motor' by hotwiring their own genes.Unable to move and facing starvation, the bacteria evolved a new way to activate their flagellum – a rotating tail-like structure which acts like an outboard motor – by patching together a new genetic switch with borrowed parts.
The findings, published in the journal Science, show that when an organism suffers a catastrophic mutation, it can rapidly rewire its
genes. The remarkable speed with which old genes take on new tasks suggests that life has evolved unexpected levels of genetic flexibility and resilience....To understand how this had happened biologists at the University of York, compared which genes were being activated in bacteria before and after evolution. Professor Brockhurst said: "Bacteria use lots of genetic switches to turn their genes on and off. Each genetic switch controls a different set of genes.""Amazingly, we found that just a single tiny change to one of these genetic switches was enough to convert it from being a switch that would normally turn on the genes for using nitrogen into a switch that now turns on the genes to build the flagella. The result is that the bacterium had, in effect, evolved a way to hotwire its motor practically overnight." Phys.org
Now--For an Excellent Rebuttal from an individual on E2.0---"This is not evolution. A gene was switched off. The bacterium switched it back on. No new information was added, but we have an awesome demonstration of self-correction from somewhere in the epigenetic code. This demonstration mitigates against evolution, not for it. If mutations are corrected, no new information is retained. Think about it."