Every day I work with atheists, Muslims, agnostics, and Christians to build software.
Every day Christians collaborate with atheists and members of other religions to manage public agencies, run businesses, and study subjects like math, Asian literature, engineering, and medieval history.
A lot of Christian scientists collaborate with atheists and other non-Christians in the study of empirical phenomena in disciplines like astronomy, geology, and biology.
Do you agree that Christian scientists have a large area of common endeavor with non-Christian scientists within the scientific disciplines?
According to the timeline agreed upon by paleontologists and biologists, it took 500 million (5 x 10^8) years across an entire globe with 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 (3.3 x 10^20) gallons of water for multi-cellular organisms to evolve from eukaryotic bacteria. That’s 1.6 x 10^29 gallon-years of space-time in which eukaryotic bacteria were active.
The Lenski experiment involves about one (1 x 10^0) gallon of water and 30 (3 x 10^1) years. That’s 3 x 10^1 gallon-years of space-time in which eukaryotic bacteria have been active in Madison, WI.
So we just need to run Lenski’s experiment for another 5 x 10^28 years (50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years) to see the results you expect!
As @Swamidass pointed out in another thread, the Lenski experiment involves a very simple, homogeneous environment that does not replicate the highly diverse environments in the real world that exert a variety of selection pressures on various bacteria populations. So while the Lenski experiment can help us understand rates of genetic drift among E. Coli, it doesn’t offer much in the way of replicating natural selection pressures. That it was able to demonstrate selection for aerobic citrate metabolism was therefore quite remarkable.
I invite any biologists in the thread to clarify or correct as needed.