In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years

LATimes ^ | Deborah Netburn

[knarf]

300 million ... uh huh.

[microgood]

Scientists had thought that modern eyes had developed hundreds of millions of years ago. Now, they have definitive proof.

Obviously not written by a scientist.

[Fungi]

My thought exactly. 300 million exactly? How was the date measured? Was it by index fossils or other method. I read the article, you are never told how the figure was arrived at.

[knarf]

I always thought it was part of the package God put together ... ohhh ... some 6 - 10 thousand years ago.

[knarf]

I don’t read those kind of articles for that purpose ... they just blurt out whatever they want and build an essay around it as if it is fact

[Secret Agent Man]

now the evolutionists are trying to believe that tissue can be preserved this long without being replaced by mineralization. after telling us for so long it was impossible they were young specimens because they’d otherwise have been totally fossilized.

i guess when you can have it both ways when it works for you, who needs consistency in “science”?

[Natufian]

It’s a piece in a newspaper. There’s al link in the article to the scientific paper. It’s only an abstract but there’s enough information there to do a bit of searchng to find out how the rocks the fossil was found in were dated.

[bunkerhill7]

In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years have been found in milky white Bok Choy Fish Head Tofu Soup

[Natufian]

What are you talking about? The scientific paper referred to in the article is titled - "Mineralized rods and cones suggest colour vision in a 300 Myr-old fossil fish"

[Sacajaweau]

Ohhhhhhhhhh....I’m so excited.

[Secret Agent Man]

i didn’t catch that in the headline.

[Caipirabob]

300 million years old...give or take 300 million years.

[Fungi]

Bingo!!!!!!

[Lake Living]

Yes, amazing, an eye is an eye is an eye - and was never anything else.

[DocRock]

Huh, wonder how those same 300 million year old rods and cones ended up in my 50 year old head and why they haven’t evolved to zoom in or macro and have night vision and thermal.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Cool find. I love this stuff. Two clicks and the actual paper pops up. The summary:

"Vision, which consists of an optical system, receptors and image-processing capacity, has existed for at least 520 Myr. Except for the optical system, as in the calcified lenses of trilobite and ostracod arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record, because the soft tissue of the eye and the brain decay rapidly after death, such as within 64 days and 11 days, respectively. The Upper Carboniferous Hamilton Formation (300 Myr) in Kansas, USA, yields exceptionally well-preserved animal fossils in an estuarine depositional setting. Here we show that the original colour, shape and putative presence of eumelanin have been preserved in the acanthodii fish Acanthodes bridgei. We also report on the tissues of its eye, which provides the first record of mineralized rods and cones in a fossil and indicates that this 300 Myr-old fish likely possessed colour vision."

It was found in layers of the earth already carefully dated. I understand a large group of people are convinced the earth is young. Wasn't it some dude in the 1800's who took a bible and added up Genesis people lifetimes that came up with the young earth date? Personally, I'm convinced God created the universe including evolution. Evolution is one of God's cool gifts. Pretty sure the pope just said it's not incompatible with Catholic Doctrine. Something along those lines. I'm no expert in religeon. Pretty good at science though, and believe in God and evolution.

[JimSEA]

It’s possible to read the article and then read the paper on which it’s based or you could just ridicule something you don’t understand. Yeah, ridicule is a whole lot more satisfying and easier.

[vpintheak]

Yeah, I don’t think so.

[SunkenCiv]

Merry Christmas! Thanks BenLurkin.