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July 6, 2007
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I just wanted to bring this article in Science to the attention of this blog. The results are very intriguing–“these gene “inventions” along the lineage leading to animals were likely already well integrated with preexisting eukaryotic genes in the eumetazoan progenitor.”

It seems that the very primitive looking sea anenome is a very sophisticated animal.

[As an aside, though Darwinists will be quick to deny this—it’s very easy to deny anything (in fact, I deny that I’m writing this right now!)—this is completely contrary to what Charles Darwin himself expected; viz., that such complex regulatory functions developed in so short a period of time. Since it is soft-bodied, it doesn’t fossilze that well; but there is a well-preserved fossil in the Burgess Shale dating from the Middle Cambrian. ]

Anyway, here’s the link to the abstract: Sea Anemone Genome ….

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Since the Coelenterata are generally not fossilizable it is easy for Darwinists to simply speculate that these “eumetazoans” actually go back as much as 400 million years earlier, without having to explain why they were not fossilized over that long period and how such complex cell systems and regulation originated in a short time at the beginning of the Cambrian.----magnan One wonders at how Darwinists can say on the one hand that we have evidence of bacterial fossils, and then, on the other hand say that coelenterates are not fossilizable, and so go much further back in geologic time. How do they do this without turning red from embarassment? PaV
–”these gene “inventions” along the lineage leading to animals were likely already well integrated with preexisting eukaryotic genes in the eumetazoan progenitor.” does this suggest foresight? are these inventions being used, or just stored for later usage? es58
"...this is completely contrary to what Charles Darwin himself expected; viz., that such complex regulatory functions developed in so short a period of time." Unfortunately, because of the fact that the coelenterata (jellyfish, sea anemones, etc.) fossilize so poorly if at all, there is no way to tell from the fossil evidence how long they go back before the Cambrian. I think the earliest apparently ancestral coelenterates found in the fossil record have been found from the lowest Cambrian in China. These were spherical embryos and some adult mouthparts with evidence of a single ancestral tentacle. Since the Coelenterata are generally not fossilizable it is easy for Darwinists to simply speculate that these "eumetazoans" actually go back as much as 400 million years earlier, without having to explain why they were not fossilized over that long period and how such complex cell systems and regulation originated in a short time at the beginning of the Cambrian. But they still have to explain the origin of the other phyla first appearing in the Cambrian. magnan
Someone should jump on this. There can be some intense research here. Is our lineage the same as the Sea Anemone? bork

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