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Line 27: − #In February 2010 NASA-funded researchers at Mono Lake in California found a new strain of microbe which substitutes the phosphorous normally found in cellular components (such as DNA and RNA) with arsenic.<ref>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html</ref> If this had occurred step by step due to a random mutation in part of the genome the mutant would have been unable to reproduce, and the odds against the entire genome mutating to use a normally toxic element simultaneously are too high for this to be credible. This rules out the microbe having a common ancestor with all other living things. However the microbe (known as GFAJ-1) is a member of a common group of bacteria, which rules out life on Earth having evolved from two separate original organisms (one phosphorous- and one arsenic-based.) The most parsimonious explanation is that GFAJ-1 was separately created.
Counterexamples to Evolution (view source)
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, 05:33, September 22, 2011Many extremeophilic bacteria can survive in arsenic laced environments, so it is possible for them to develop the ability to use arsenic while still surviving in their environment.
# Trematode parasites, like many other kinds, lack a plausible evolutionary phylogeny, though they can easily be explained by a teleological design.<ref>http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/36/36_4/trematodes.html</ref>
# Trematode parasites, like many other kinds, lack a plausible evolutionary phylogeny, though they can easily be explained by a teleological design.<ref>http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/36/36_4/trematodes.html</ref>
# In addition, evolution cannot explain the many complex sex-determining systems. For example, in most mammals, females have two identical sex chromosomes (XX in this case) whereas males two different ones (XY.) However in birds, reptiles, many insects, and other organisms, the situation is reversed to where the male has two identical sex chromosomes and the female has two different ones; for example male birds have a ZZ chromosome pair and females ZW. No evolutionist has proposed a mechanism by which mammals could have a different sex chromosome system from the reptile ancestors they allegedly share with birds.
# In addition, evolution cannot explain the many complex sex-determining systems. For example, in most mammals, females have two identical sex chromosomes (XX in this case) whereas males two different ones (XY.) However in birds, reptiles, many insects, and other organisms, the situation is reversed to where the male has two identical sex chromosomes and the female has two different ones; for example male birds have a ZZ chromosome pair and females ZW. No evolutionist has proposed a mechanism by which mammals could have a different sex chromosome system from the reptile ancestors they allegedly share with birds.
===Maladaptation===
===Maladaptation===