Posted on 02/03/2015 4:50:47 PM PST by bkopto
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, say they’ve discovered a microorganism that hasn’t evolved in more than two billion years — the longest ever absence of evolutionary evidence in a single species.
Researchers say the deep sea creature — whose evolutionary stasis is detailed in the journal PNAS doesn’t disprove evolution so much as bolster Darwin’s case.
“The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin,” lead study author J. William Schopf, a professor of earth, planetary and space sciences at UCLA.
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Schopf says it is certainly fascinating that some life hasn’t evolved for nearly half the history of the planet Earth, but that the discovery fits perfectly with Darwin’s ideas.
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Scientists don’t really ever “prove” anything. It is mathematicians who do that. Scientists just make hypotheses and then try to test them by making predictions based on them that can hopefully be confirmed with experiment or observation. Even if they are confirmed, they still are never “proven”. There is always the possibility that a better hypothesis could predict the same things and also form a more complete or accurate theory.
At least, that is how science is supposed to work. There are some scientific disciplines where that method can’t be easily applied, so they may play a little looser with the rules.
More contortions than a game of mixed-doubles Twister.
Until I saw that photo, I never believed that nonsense about there being a “third sex.”
Who is that and what happened to her lips?
Bruce Jenner?
Well... I guess the scientists just take that on 'faith'.
Is that Mr. Spock’s mother ?
You left out the Nancy Pelosi Bacterium and the Harry Reid Anus Ringworm.
Dear old commie Laura Del Rosa or whatever her phylla is, is one scary creature. Should put her on the Endangered Feces list ASAP, and then preserve her in a block of plastic for all to see what happens when DNA GO WILD!
Not to be viewed by children under 16!
Whew! Made it in before Helen Thomas picture.
That’s a worm, not a microorganism.
Democrats? Liberals?
BASTARD!
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! lol
Well, YOU MADE ME DO IT!
Barack Obama claims he evolved on same sex marriage.
I still hate you!
The sad and sorry sods who believe evolution is anything more than a sophomoric mental exercise in superficial deciphering of mind-boggling engineering are dumber than the dirt on which they’re standing.
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