Periannan Senapathy wrote:
>> I think that you will be interested in a book that I have recently
> published by the title "Independent Birth of Organisms," in
> which I propose a new theory as an alternative to the conventional
> theory of evolution.
This is very interesting, but I have a few questions.
> Organisms have not descended from a common ancestor, but
> rather from millions of independently born organisms, whose
> genomes were all assembled from a common gene-pool from
> a single small primordial pond by using the common biochemicals,
> genes and molecular biological mechanisms.
"biological mechanisms"? So these primordial genes were in organisms?
And these organisms swapped them around? Sounds like sex to me...
It's still happening :-)
Seriously, what mechanism do you envision for the transfer of primordial
genes?
> Computer studies
> of the genes of animals and plants that are split into exons (coding
> regions) and introns (junk DNA) show that such genes would
I object to the term "junk DNA" for introns. I thought there was lots of
evidence for their function in regulation.
> Modern molecular biology provides ample evidence for the new
> theory. Recent discoveries of many unique genes in distinct
> organisms that are totally absent in other organisms provide the
> best evidence.
Example, please? How do we know they aren't present elsewhere?
> The sudden appearance of almost all the distinct organisms
> belonging to all the different phyla in a geological instant at the
> base of the Cambrian period, termed the Cambrian Explosion,
> has not been explainable by the theory of evolution. The new
> mechanism in fact predicts this scenario.
I'm confused - if "higher taxa" have been around since very early, why
is there no early fossil record for them?
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