SCIENTISTS FIND ORGANISM THAT HASN’T EVOLVED IN 2 BILLION YEARS

Breitbart/UPI ^ | Feb 3, 2015 | staff

[bkopto]

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, say they’ve discovered a microorganism that hasn’t evolved in more than two billion years — the longest ever absence of evolutionary evidence in a single species.

Researchers say the deep sea creature — whose evolutionary stasis is detailed in the journal PNAS doesn’t disprove evolution so much as bolster Darwin’s case.

“The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin,” lead study author J. William Schopf, a professor of earth, planetary and space sciences at UCLA.

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Schopf says it is certainly fascinating that some life hasn’t evolved for nearly half the history of the planet Earth, but that the discovery fits perfectly with Darwin’s ideas.

[bkopto]

Methinks the good professor protests too much. For the academic, everything life form must fit perfectly with Darwinism, because the alternative is too horrible to consider.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Mastador1]

I saw the title and thought, oh no another story about Biden.

[newfreep]

Has there been ANY proof that any life form has “evolved”?

[LostInBayport]

That would be the democraticus gibsmedatum, a pea-brained organism that feathers its nest with goods stolen from productive beings and reproduces at an alarming rate.

[WayneS]

A democrat senator?

[bkopto]

SNORT!

[ansel12]

It must be male.

[snooter55]

Islamasaurus ?

[ClearCase_guy]

Schopf says it is certainly fascinating that some life hasn’t evolved for nearly half the history of the planet Earth, but that the discovery fits perfectly with Darwin’s ideas.

It's pretty much inconceivable that they will ever find anything which makes them doubt Darwin. They have their conclusion. That's where they start. Then the evidence is massaged and re-interpreted until it fits the theory.

It's a heck of a lot like Global Warming.

[Islander7]

I misread the title. I thought this was about an orgasm.

[Patriot Babe]

So what the heck does Keith Richards have to do with all this? O wait! didn’t he fall from the top of a palm tree some years ago? Ok that makes sense why a photo of Keith is shown in this thread. =)

[Mom MD]

otherwise known as a liberal....

[clearcarbon]

"SCIENTISTS FIND ORGANISM THAT HASN’T EVOLVED IN 2 BILLION YEARS"

It couldn't have been a liberal species. Earlier genetic iterations of the liberal organisms would have died out whenever a new predator species appeared or they'd likely forgotten how to reproduce.

[TalBlack]

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, say they’ve discovered a microorganism that hasn’t evolved in more than two billion years —

Hey! When you’re perfect you’re PERFECT!

[M Kehoe]

Orgasm?

Ok, maybe I got the wrong thread...

5.56mm

[MeshugeMikey]

pretty primitive, I’d have to say

[BigEdLB]

Here is the obviouas answer


Not evolved in 2,000,000,000 years

[so_real]

“The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin,” lead study author J. William Schopf

Ergo ... neither the physical nor the biological environment in the deep sea has changed ... at all ... in two billion years ... mmmmkay.

[El Cid]

fricken’ slacker. Probably has been on Government welfare all these years...