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POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Sunday, December 25, 2011 02:42
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Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:09 PM

DREAMTROVE



http://www.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/600-Million-Yea
r-Old-Microscopic-Fossils-Upend-Evolution-Theory-136172283.html


Quote:

Study co-author Phil Donoghue of Britain’s University of Bristol said the new results mean much of what has been written about the fossils for the last 10 years is “flat wrong.”


Not sure what this means. Sounds like it means that a fair amount of evolution theory written recently was all based on an erroneous assumption, but I'm open to interpretations from the crowd.

I personally found the "all life is post snowball earth" theory troublesome because it forced us to discard previous theories of early evolution resulting in more confusion, and an abundance of unified theories.

I guess my overall take on this would, at first glance, be to see just how far off course science can get from one erroneous assumption.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:31 PM

BYTEMITE


...some scientists thought snowball earth wiped out life? Uh, then how did we come out of a snowball earth?

Don't think they thought that one through.

EDIT: Ah, after reading the article, I think what was meant is that scientists have to rethink when multicellular life arose. But the article is very vague and not informative.

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Sunday, December 25, 2011 2:42 AM

CANTTAKESKY


The above link has some extra text at the end, so here is the corrected link.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/600-Million-Yea
r-Old-Microscopic-Fossils-Upend-Evolution-Theory-136172283.html


Here is the Science paper. Alas, abstract only.

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6063/1696




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