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In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years
LATimes ^ | Deborah Netburn

Posted on 12/23/2014 5:11:08 PM PST by BenLurkin

Scientists have discovered a fossilized fish so well preserved that the rods and cones in its 300-million-year-old [sic]eyeballs are still visible under a scanning electron microscope..

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; paleontology
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1 posted on 12/23/2014 5:11:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

300 million ... uh huh.


2 posted on 12/23/2014 5:12:19 PM PST by knarf
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To: BenLurkin
Scientists had thought that modern eyes had developed hundreds of millions of years ago. Now, they have definitive proof.

Obviously not written by a scientist.
3 posted on 12/23/2014 5:17:32 PM PST by microgood
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To: knarf
My thought exactly. 300 million exactly? How was the date measured? Was it by index fossils or other method. I read the article, you are never told how the figure was arrived at.
4 posted on 12/23/2014 5:20:28 PM PST by Fungi (There is more to Fungi than the eye can see.)
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To: microgood

I always thought it was part of the package God put together ... ohhh ... some 6 - 10 thousand years ago.


5 posted on 12/23/2014 5:20:43 PM PST by knarf
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To: Fungi

I don’t read those kind of articles for that purpose ... they just blurt out whatever they want and build an essay around it as if it is fact


6 posted on 12/23/2014 5:22:42 PM PST by knarf
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To: knarf

now the evolutionists are trying to believe that tissue can be preserved this long without being replaced by mineralization. after telling us for so long it was impossible they were young specimens because they’d otherwise have been totally fossilized.

i guess when you can have it both ways when it works for you, who needs consistency in “science”?


7 posted on 12/23/2014 5:28:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Fungi

It’s a piece in a newspaper. There’s al link in the article to the scientific paper. It’s only an abstract but there’s enough information there to do a bit of searchng to find out how the rocks the fossil was found in were dated.


8 posted on 12/23/2014 5:29:11 PM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: BenLurkin

In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years have been found in milky white Bok Choy Fish Head Tofu Soup


9 posted on 12/23/2014 5:29:51 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))
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To: Secret Agent Man
What are you talking about? The scientific paper referred to in the article is titled - "Mineralized rods and cones suggest colour vision in a 300 Myr-old fossil fish"
10 posted on 12/23/2014 5:32:47 PM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: BenLurkin

Ohhhhhhhhhh....I’m so excited.


11 posted on 12/23/2014 5:35:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Natufian

i didn’t catch that in the headline.


12 posted on 12/23/2014 5:36:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

300 million years old...give or take 300 million years.


13 posted on 12/23/2014 5:45:48 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Bingo!!!!!!


14 posted on 12/23/2014 6:05:02 PM PST by Fungi (There is more to Fungi than the eye can see.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, amazing, an eye is an eye is an eye - and was never anything else.


15 posted on 12/23/2014 6:07:39 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: BenLurkin

Huh, wonder how those same 300 million year old rods and cones ended up in my 50 year old head and why they haven’t evolved to zoom in or macro and have night vision and thermal.


16 posted on 12/23/2014 6:50:49 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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Cool find. I love this stuff. Two clicks and the actual paper pops up. The summary:

"Vision, which consists of an optical system, receptors and image-processing capacity, has existed for at least 520 Myr. Except for the optical system, as in the calcified lenses of trilobite and ostracod arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record, because the soft tissue of the eye and the brain decay rapidly after death, such as within 64 days and 11 days, respectively. The Upper Carboniferous Hamilton Formation (300 Myr) in Kansas, USA, yields exceptionally well-preserved animal fossils in an estuarine depositional setting. Here we show that the original colour, shape and putative presence of eumelanin have been preserved in the acanthodii fish Acanthodes bridgei. We also report on the tissues of its eye, which provides the first record of mineralized rods and cones in a fossil and indicates that this 300 Myr-old fish likely possessed colour vision."

It was found in layers of the earth already carefully dated. I understand a large group of people are convinced the earth is young. Wasn't it some dude in the 1800's who took a bible and added up Genesis people lifetimes that came up with the young earth date? Personally, I'm convinced God created the universe including evolution. Evolution is one of God's cool gifts. Pretty sure the pope just said it's not incompatible with Catholic Doctrine. Something along those lines. I'm no expert in religeon. Pretty good at science though, and believe in God and evolution.

17 posted on 12/23/2014 7:02:01 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Run Ted, Run!!!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s possible to read the article and then read the paper on which it’s based or you could just ridicule something you don’t understand. Yeah, ridicule is a whole lot more satisfying and easier.


18 posted on 12/23/2014 7:16:25 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, I don’t think so.


19 posted on 12/23/2014 10:21:35 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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Merry Christmas! Thanks BenLurkin.

20 posted on 12/24/2014 7:12:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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