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Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 7:25 am
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2...inary-eye/
Quote:It is perhaps the most extraordinary eye in the living world – so extraordinary that no one believed the biologist who first described it more than a century ago.
Now it appears that the tiny owner of this eye uses it to catch invisible prey by detecting polarised light. This suggestion is also likely to be greeted with disbelief, for the eye belongs to a single-celled organism called Erythropsidinium.
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 7:47 am
Indeed, the gene which is responsible for producing the photo sensitive protein rhodopsin, the molecular basis of vision in all complex animals, appears to be very ancient, and first arose in a blue green algae. So the most primitive eye probably arose some time near when single called life first developed oxygen photosynthesis,around 2.2-2.5 billion years ago.
How the gene made the jump into ancestors of animals is unclear.
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 8:37 am
Sounds like this finally proves creationism, doesn't it?
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 11:28 am
What an amazing discovery!
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 11:31 am
They only have to graft a ridiculous wig on it and it can stand for election next year.
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 11:44 am
But...but...but...what about Jay-sus?
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 12:46 pm
I'm not sure I like the idea of germs looking at my nads.
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RE: Single celled creature with functioning eye.
December 13, 2015 at 1:59 pm
(December 13, 2015 at 11:50 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (December 13, 2015 at 11:44 am)Minimalist Wrote: But...but...but...what about Jay-sus?
Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
+1 for citation of LaPlace, and in French, no less.
Before any of the rest of you go making fun of Frenchmen, please recall that I am half French (Cajun), and speak the language.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
