Posted on 08/01/2007 9:48:01 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Surprising New Species Of Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered In Yellowstone
Science Daily — In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers has discovered a novel bacterium that transforms light into chemical energy. The researchers also discovered that the new genus and species belongs to a new phylum, Acidobacteria -- only the third time in the past 100 years that a new bacterial phylum has been added to the list of those with chlorophyll-producing members, of which there are now only six...
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Solar radiation is also just the right energy for the transitions in rhodopsin in our retinas that allow us to see the green plants. The fine-tuning is observational fact; the evolutionary speculation is superstition. That’s what we should call it. Superstition is believing something totally without evidence, like believing a rabbit’s foot will bring good luck. Actually, one could adduce evidence selectively in favor of a superstition, and that is what evolutionists do. A child has a lucky day and thinks it proves the rabbit’s foot worked (selectively ignoring the owie of the day). An evolutionist sees the success of photosynthesis and thinks evolution was responsible. What’s the difference? Dyson and Raven may envision exotic bacteria around an M-star with multiple stages of photosynthesis to harvest infrared light using black, purple and mauve pigments, but that is illusion. [light bulb] Hey; that gives us an opportunity to coin a new word to describe Darwin’s brand of science, the result of superstitiously speculating in the absence of evidence: ev-illusion...
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IIRC, Yellowstone springs are also where they discovered Thermus Aquaticus.
A remarkable bacteria that can live in water almost 180 degrees hot, also yields TAQ polymerase, the enzyme that allows PCR DNA technology.
That’s why many older cases have been solved if they had degraded or insufficient DNA samples to test. With taq polymerase, you can make quarts of the stuff if you want to.
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I have a question, if you don’t mind. Over the course of time, various species, genuses, and phyla become extinct, correct? So if new species aren’t also evolving into being at the same time, wouldn’t the number of species constantly be decreasing until we had only a few left? What is the creationist response to this dilemma?
It was invented by a crazy San Diego surfer dude Kary Mullis(brilliant and eccentric) who doesn’t believe that CO2 is the driving force behind land based recordings of increasing temperature.
He also has some other wacky views, but he had really interesting observations about the data.
Thank you for the post.
He appears to believe the Earth is older than 10,000 years and that evolution is valid science so a large percentage of readers will automatically ignore his views.
Nothing new. The bacteria in the US Capitol have been transforming light into gas, and generating darkness, for a century or more.
Creationists accept the notion of genetic vatiation within the limits of the created kinds. For instance, a dog could mutate into another species of dog, but Creationists do not accept that fish can become lizards, or that lizards can become birds, etc. And as it happens, the evidence of the fossil record suggests that Creationists are correct, while at the same time destroying Darwinian expectations:
http://www.detectingdesign.com/fossilrecord.html
This should be developed so that we can shake some of the dependence on middle eastern oil. Then we can tell the saudis to go pound sand since they will have less money to give to terrorists.
Evil-lusion fits better!
I was just in Yellowstone! Too bad I didn’t see this earlier, lol
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