J Hubner wrote:It also seems to me that the main proponent’s of evolutionism are mostly concerned with doing pseudo-science that actual science. Actual science is concerned with rigourous attemps at refutation rather than only attempts at confirmation.
The history of evolution has been nothing but poor attempts at confirmation, gaps subsists, its claims are improvable and it much lacks openness to critique by competent peers.

Koonin et al. wrote:Abstract
Background
It is common belief that all cellular life forms on earth have a common origin. This view is supported by the universality of the genetic code and the universal conservation of multiple genes, particularly those that encode key components of the translation system. A remarkable recent study claims to provide a formal, homology independent test of the Universal Common Ancestry hypothesis by comparing the ability of a common-ancestry model and a multiple-ancestry model to predict sequences of universally conserved proteins.

Results
We devised a computational experiment on a concatenated alignment of universally conserved proteins which shows that the purported demonstration of the universal common ancestry is a trivial consequence of significant sequence similarity between the analyzed proteins. The nature and origin of this similarity are irrelevant for the prediction of "common ancestry" of by the model-comparison approach. Thus, homology (common origin) of the compared proteins remains an inference from sequence similarity rather than an independent property demonstrated by the likelihood analysis.

Conclusion
A formal demonstration of the Universal Common Ancestry hypothesis has not been achieved and is unlikely to be feasible in principle. Nevertheless, the evidence in support of this hypothesis provided by comparative genomics is overwhelming.

Spearthrower wrote:Rumraket - thanks for posting the Neil Shubin video! While I've read 'Your Inner Fish' - there was quite a bit of info in that vid that was new to me!

Agrippina wrote:I'm sitting with my computer on my lap with the TV on in the background. I just picked up this animal's name, is this true that this is the "mother of breast-feeding:"

And they said that it lived in South Africa, which was what caught my attention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megazostrodon

byofrcs wrote:Wonder what they tasted like ?

J Hubner wrote:Greetings.

One of the main problems evolutionist’s realists face s nowadays is the principal problem exposed by the wilful ignorance of people who can't be bothered to read up on the real science but instead disagree with it anyway because it makes a nonsense of their favourite make-believe version of the world diversity of species we observe today on our planet.