Posted on 12/19/2017 3:14:12 AM PST by SkyPilot
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.
An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world. The fossils were first described in 1993 but a 2017 study published by UCLA and UW-Madison scientists used sophisticated chemical analysis to confirm the microscopic structures found in the rock are indeed biological, rendering them -- at 3.5 billion years -- the oldest fossils yet found.
The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by J. William Schopf, professor of paleobiology at UCLA, and John W. Valley, professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research relied on new technology and scientific expertise developed by researchers in the UW-Madison WiscSIMS Laboratory.
The study describes 11 microbial specimens from five separate taxa, linking their morphologies to chemical signatures that are characteristic of life. Some represent now-extinct bacteria and microbes from a domain of life called Archaea, while others are similar to microbial species still found today. The findings also suggest how each may have survived on an oxygen-free planet.
The microfossils -- so called because they are not evident to the naked eye -- were first described in the journal Science in 1993 by Schopf and his team, which identified them based largely on the fossils' unique, cylindrical and filamentous shapes. Schopf, director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life...
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Hmmmn. Maybe.
I’ve got the original “fossilized” growths of the iron-producing “plants” on my shelf, also at 3.5 billion years old. Seems that a structured, stem (or backbone ??) and body would be hard to see evolving at the same time the fundamental atmosphere was changing from “deadly” to “oxygenated”. Or vice versa: From “life sustaining” to “deadly and poisoned with oxygen”
Not gonna claim that a miracle did not occur, merely that this date range seems unlikely.
No, I want to expose what is a fake post
Fossil Rock K-EARTH 101.1
The need for ground metal to cause electrolysis.
When I was gold panning once I found a fossil 22 bullet. It had a donut ring of sandstone formed around the lead /copper interface. Must have been a million years old.
Winchester.
And some read to not learn.
Thanks Robert A Cook PE.
You mean “not referenced.”
Gen 1:1
John 1:1,14
Thanks.
Well, no.
That’s why is said “max”. I agree with you.
This thread is a great example of two forces colliding. One has very little m and very little a- so really no f to speak of.
The other is the omniscient and omnipotent God of the universe who created everything. He is also the God of mercy - who sent His Son to pay the price that none of us could.
His wisdom can’t be compared to whichever of us dares to question Him or His Word.
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”
(Job 38:2)
Nice list.
I’m not counting on “self-righteousness”. That’s a fool’s errand.
I’m not counting on “self-righteousness”. That’s a fool’s errand.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Isaiah 64:6
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:21
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