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Deep-Sea Microorganism Hasn't Evolved For Over 2 Billion Years
sfcrazy writes: Evolution is a natural process — everything evolves over a period of time, depending on the environment. But now scientists have discovered an organism which hasn't evolved for over more than 2 billion years. That's almost the half of the life of the Earth. "The scientists examined sulfur bacteria (abstract), 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." Scientists say the extreme stability of the environment around the organisms made further adaptations unnecessary.
Wasps haven't evolved in at least 35 million years....sometimes there is no force nor need for evolution.
Republicans have evolved over the years. At one time, they were the party pushing the Civil Rights act through, while many Democrats opposed it! At one time, they were for Constitutional limitations on federal government. But now they're against those things. Oh wait, that's devolving?
There are no activist judges in the ocean!
How did eyes evolve? The structures are too complex to be accounted for by traditional evolutionary explanation mechanisms.
"Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist; he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public." - J. B. S. Haldane