Posted on 10/13/2005 8:46:39 PM PDT by HAL9000
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TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- A mysterious marine microbe, half of whose individual cells eat algae like animals while the rest perform photosynthesis like plants, has been discovered, a University of Tsukuba research team said.The discovery, the first of its kind, will be carried in the U.S. magazine Science that will be published on Friday.
"I think the discovery of the 'half-animal, half-plant' microbe shows part of the process of single-cell marine microbes evolving into plants," Prof. Isao Inoue, a member of the research team, said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp ...
Thanks for the excerpt, but I got lost after the third word.
Sorry for the technical lingo. You may read more here
Algea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algea
Mitochondrion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion
I would have guessed the other way round.
Evolution is a religion.
A whale farts, and it becomes evidence for the missing link.
Evolution is no more a religion than gravity, i.e. none at all.
An understanding of evolution is the basis of understanding biology, ecology and medicine. No antibiotics or flu vaccine for you, I guess! Next!
No it's not. Furthermore antibiotics and vaccines existed before evolution theology. The germ theory of disease was developed quite independently of ET. The first vaccine created in 1796.
Is this real? I don't want to ping the evolution list for some kind of UFO story.
I suppose it may look that way to someone grossly ignorant of science, and/or to those who themselves see everything through the filter of religion, and thus presume that everyone else must also.
Also, how does your bizarre belief deal with the fact that the majority of American "evolutionists" are Christians? Sorry if that makes your head explode.
A whale farts, and it becomes evidence for the missing link.
As I was saying about grossly ignorant...
Yes, but understanding *why* vaccines work, *how* they work, and more importantly, how pathogens eventually bypass the vaccinations and new preventative measures are required (and how to slow down the process so that we can keep one step ahead of the pathogens) are all subjects that rely heavily upon an intimate understanding of evolution and how it operates in the real world, because both the body's immune system reponse, and the response of pathogens to antibiotics and vaccines, both operate via evolution.
So we'll make you a deal -- if you insist on living in the Dark Ages and rejecting well-established science, then you'll only be allowed to receive vaccinations (and other medical treatments) which existed before 1859, and/or were developed with absolutely no reference to or research from evolutionary biology. And that will leave you with precious little. Deal?
Or maybe you could just stop spewing ignorant nonsense.
Yes, the research is OK, but the description in the article is not especially good.
The Thing From Another World! That was a great film! Amazing how influential it was - those motion-tracker scenes from Aliens were nicked from this 50s beauty. And didn't it end with "Keep watching the skies!"?
Sorry. Movie geek rant.
Oh good grief. [moronicism alert]
Understanding what evolution is and how is works is the underpinning of modern biology.
Doesn't matter if you "believe" it or not.
What are your qualifications for coming to an educated conclusion regarding the data involved?
Great memories, though.
Well I guess we'll have to make sure you get the 1796 vaccine while the rest of us get vaccines developed through the understanding of evolution.
The English portion of the MSN news release looks legit, but my Japanese isn't up to the task of verifying the original. Would you like me to forward the Japanese text to my daughter-in-law?
I could get her to send you some sushi if you want.
Excellent correlation.
I don't do sushi. We'll have to pass on the thread.
You can always wait until it comes out in Science. But I think it makes sense (been wrong before, though).
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