[troutman]

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

You believe that everything evolved from lower forms of life without solid evidence. You have a fossil record that is a record of extinction. Others have put it in categories and said it shows creation ascending from simpler forms. You believe them. They have found the equivalent to 10 pieces of a 1000 piece puzzle and filled in the rest calling them missing links. You believe them. They have identified the origin of life as beginning as some chemical soup that doesn't exist naturally today and couldn't outside of the lab. This soup does not explain the formation of a genetic code. You believe them.

You believe that nature left alone becomes more complexed. You believe this despite what we can be observed. The difference between you and me is I recognize faith as faith. You call yours science and belittle mine.

Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life on earth
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-....html#firstCmt

More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals.

Now scientists have replicated that key step in the laboratory using common Brewer's yeast, a single-celled organism.

The yeast "evolved" into multi-cellular clusters that work together cooperatively, reproduce and adapt to their environment--in essence, they became precursors to life on Earth as it is today.

The results are published in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

"The finding that the division-of-labor evolves so quickly and repeatedly in these 'snowflake' clusters is a big surprise," says George Gilchrist, acting deputy division director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research.

"The first step toward multi-cellular complexity seems to be less of an evolutionary hurdle than theory would suggest," says Gilchrist. "This will stimulate a lot of important research questions."