Genome complexity: Loki may not be that important (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, May 17, 2015, 00:49 (3267 days ago) @ David Turell

Only 3.3% of proteins match:-"In all they found a whopping 3.3% of the Lokiarchaeota proteins to be similar to eukaryotic proteins.-" That leads the evolutionists to declare that today's Lokiarchaeota shares a common ancestry with eukaryotes. From a scientific perspective that is not merely an unsupported conclusion, it is contradictory to a mountain of empirical evidence."-http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2015/05/evolutionists-overreach-on-eukaryote.html-Here is a dissenting paper:-"In the grand schema of evolution, a mythical prokaryote to eukaryote cellular transition allegedly gave rise to the diversity of eukaryotic life (eukaryogenesis). One of the key problems with this idea is the fact that the prokaryotic world itself is divided into two apparent domains (bacteria and archaea) and eukarya share similarities to both domains of prokaryotes while also exhibiting many major innovative features found in neither. In this article, we briefly review the current landscape of the controversy and show how the key molecular features surrounding DNA replication, transcription, and translation are fundamentally distinct in eukarya despite superficial similarities to prokaryotes, particularly archaea. These selected discontinuous molecular chasms highlight the impossibility for eukarya having evolved from archaea. In a separate paper, we will address alleged similarities between eukarya and bacteria."-https://answersingenesis.org/biology/microbiology/information-processing-differences-between-archaea-and-eukarya/-And the same problem with descent from bacteria:-"Because bacteria, archaea, and eukarya contain unique mosaics of genetic features and biochemical similarities, it has been notoriously difficult for evolutionists to infer the molecular biological properties of a first or last eukaryotic common ancestor. Eukarya share similarities to both domains of prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea) while also exhibiting many innovative molecular features found in neither. Nevertheless, evolutionists postulate that some sort of mythical bacterial-archaeal precursor gave rise to the first eukaryotic cell. In a previous report, we showed that a vast chasm exists between archaea and eukarya in regard to basic molecular machines involved in DNA replication, RNA transcription, and protein translation. The differences in information processing mechanisms and systems are even greater between bacteria and eukarya, which we elaborate upon in this report. Based on differences in lineage-specific essential gene sets and in the vital molecular machines between bacteria and eukarya, we continue to demonstrate that the same unbridgeable evolutionary chasms exist—further invalidating the myth of eukaryogenesis."-https://answersingenesis.org/biology/microbiology/information-processing-differences-between-bacteria-and-eukarya/- Conclusion: We still have no idea how eukaryotes appeared.