Creationism and Nylon-Eating Bacteria « The Sensuous Curmudgeon

Creationism and Nylon-Eating Bacteria « The Sensuous Curmudgeon: "In 1975 a team of Japanese scientists discovered a strain of Flavobacterium living in ponds containing waste water from a factory producing nylon that was capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture, such as the linear dimer of 6-aminohexanoate, even though those substances are not known to have existed before the invention of nylon in 1935."