[FrustratedMonky]

This took 30 years.

For Macro, isn't it just longer. 300 years, 3000 years.

How would that be done in a lab to the satisfaction of anybody that would deny evolution to begin with.

There is no experiment that will satisfy people of this because they don't want to know.

[zamadatix]

Running an experiments isn't just about proving others wrong, it's also about adding confidence to current understandings and finding new details that might have been overlooked so far. Even as one who considers evolution a very solidly shown mechanism I'd like to see something like this be a bit of a "pitch drop experiment" equivalent where we run it as long as possible. Partially for the novelty, partially to see what the lab conditions result in over an extended period that we might not have intended, and partially to try and shore up even more support for what we think we're certain of. It'd also be nice to control for a few other considerations in the experiment... but I'll take what I can get on something so long running :).