Enlighten me then, just one tidbit of proof [of evolution].
"How about that poor nylon-eating bacteria, starving for millenia until humans invented nylon for it to eat? No?"
They are capable of eating nylon, it's not the only thing they can eat. Try again.
"No, you fail to understand, as expected. There is scientific consensus that the capacity to synthesize nylonase most probably developed as a single-step mutation that survived because it improved the fitness of the bacteria possessing the mutation. More importantly: The enzyme involved has been produced by a mutation completely randomizing the original gene. Despite this, the new gene still had a novel, albeit weak, catalytic capacity. This is seen as a good example of how mutations easily can provide the raw material for evolution by natural selection."
scientific consensus = popular opinion
most probably = speculation
mutations easily can = more speculation
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