lichens – Uncommon Descent

Insects were mimicking lichens 165 million years ago

Whoever wrote the media release was very, very light on the Darwinblather. Mind you, claiming that it all happened via endless iterations of natural selection acting on random mutations wears a bit thin when the time Darwinians thought they had has been sharply reduced.

Evolution Intelligent Design Plants

Lichens evolved millions of years AFTER plants?

Researchers: “But a closer look at the DNA of the algae and fungi that form lichens shows that lichens likely evolved millions of years after plants. “

Intelligent Design Plants

How Darwinism misled biologists about lichens

They spent a lot of time ridiculing what they should have been studying. They ridiculed the now commonly accepted idea that a lichen was algae and fungi living as if they were one organism: The very notion of different organisms living so closely with—or within—each other was unheard of. That they should coexist to their Read More…

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