Comments on: Coffee! Evolution – Sometimes you just don’t know what or who to believe.

By: Mung

Mung — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:32:27 +0000

Hey, finally a discussion of the data. If eukaryotes came first, this would be a serious problem for the dominant theory, even though it seems that the authors do not question the varacity of the theory (of course).

bfast!

The “dominant theory” is nowhere near as well defined as you’d like. It is extremely plastic.

There are obvious evolutionary reasons why eukaryotes preceeded prokaryotes.

I have to admit that I cannot admit at present what they are, but that is no argument in favor of the assertion that they do not exist.

By: magnan

magnan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:34:05 +0000

I wonder how the authors deal with all the evidence that some essential organelles in eukaryotic cells originated by symbiosis with prokaryotic bacterial organisms. The most prominent case is with the ribosome.

By: bFast

bFast — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:57 +0000

Hey, finally a discussion of the data. If eukaryotes came first, this would be a serious problem for the dominant theory, even though it seems that the authors do not question the varacity of the theory (of course).

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:15:45 +0000

This is one reason why nested hierarchies are not predicted by descent with modification/ Common Descent.

That is because nested hierarchies demand a direction of immutable and additive defining characteristics and evolution isn’t like that.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:06:58 +0000

Tragic,

I agree, but one clue is where they say that bacteria came later as “stripped down eukaryotes.”

By: tragic mishap

tragic mishap — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:12:48 +0000

I would like to know how they define the directions they are talking about.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:44:45 +0000

“We do think there is a tendency to look at evolution as progressive,” he said.

How funny, now why would there be such a tendency?