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An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The findings are published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists examined sulfur bacteria, microorganisms that are too small to see with the unaided eye, that are 1.8 billion years old and were preserved in rocks from Western Australia's coastal waters. Using cutting-edge technology, they found that the bacteria look the same as bacteria of the same region from 2.3 billion years ago—and that both sets of ancient bacteria are indistinguishable from modern sulfur bacteria found in mud off of the coast of Chile.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-scientists-hasnt-evolved-billion-years.html
[Abstract]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/27/1419241112
(Score: 5, Funny) by hoochiecoochieman on Tuesday February 03 2015, @05:35PM
Unlike you, he quoted his references, so he's winning 1-0.
(Score: 1) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday February 03 2015, @11:47PM
I wonder if the A/C's reference is the Bible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 04 2015, @02:49AM
While I am a Christian by faith I don't claim to have all the answers. There are many things I can't explain. But from an evidence perspective I just don't see evidence supporting UCD. Regardless of what I may believe I am merely pointing out that UCD is unsupported by evidence. You may not like this fact but no matter how much you don't like it doesn't change the facts. The burden isn't on me to disprove UCD it's on proponents to provide supporting evidence and so far I simply haven't seen any. This article certainly doesn't provide any.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday February 04 2015, @06:01PM
I am merely pointing out that UCD is unsupported by evidence
Look up the name Carl Woese. There is molecular evidence that life branched out very early in three directions from a common ancestor. One branch, probably more similar to the earliest life than the other branches, led to bacteria like those in the article, which have survived in niches that are more similar to early conditions on Earth, one branch led to the rest of the bacteria, and the third branch led to pretty much everything else.