Bacteria multiply just fine (in fact better) with phosphorous but seem to cope with arsenic too. This is in my view a strong indicator of a mistake or flaw in t

Bacteria multiply just fine (in fact better) with phosphorous but seem to cope with arsenic too. This is in my view a strong indicator of a mistake or flaw in the paper because it'd mean that if the authors' speculations were real, those bacteria would have evolved thus to modify a great deal of their biology just little enough to be able to incorporate both arsenate and phosphorus. It doesn't make sense. <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52420/Science-2010-Wolfe-Simon-science.1197258.pdf>Heres http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52420/Science-2010-Wolfe-Simon-scien... the PDF</a> of the paper, btw (I don't like scribd).