Doubting Didymus

Your website is out of date. Water moulds are classified as chytridiomycota and are fungi. "protists" is a stupid kingdom anyway.

Anyhow, if the different groups had separate abiogeneses, then we would not expect them to all posess DNA for a start. This theory may explain why organisms are different, but it can not explain why they are also so similar.

P.S.: Chytrids can so reproduce sexually.

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Reldas of Melchezidec

Greetings Didy'
I never realized how much paying attention in class is crucial to the propogation of future intellectual conversations. Maybe I should go back to pizza delivery...

I think i was thinking about the Deuteromycota as being the celibate ones. I know one of em' is darn it! Just had to do a little process of elimination.

Hmmm. I don't think that that is its main problem. In fact it might be it's strong point. Evolutionary theory suggests:
1)X(1st "biotic" life)-&gt; A-&gt; B-&gt; C-&gt; T(extinction)
2)(starting with)A-&gt; D-&gt; E-&gt; F-&gt; G-&gt; H-&gt; T
3)G-&gt; I-&gt; J-&gt; K(ancestor to all life on earth)

In this scenario, there are probably many pseudo cells or prebiotic creatures that all go extinct except for one of them, which became the ancestor to all life on earth. Under Senapathiasm, each highly geneticaly disimilar organism arose from its own ancestor traced back to the same prebiotic soup. Because the pond was full of random RNA(or DNA) sequences- thousands of times longer than any we see in life today, primitive biotic organisms were produced over the years.

The Senapathian reason why we are so similar in the way that our phenotypes are determined lies in the "fact" that the sort of genetic molecules common to all of us were available in great amounts in these pools. It just so happened that occasionaly the ones that "worked": like some DNA in the first nematode like creatures, would be used again when forming a prmitive gastropod. A myriad of working templates, as it were. There would be evolutonary processes causeing this to happen, as only the ones that could replicate the most communaly and gain an advantage from certain protein arrangements would be driven into becomeing a primitive ancestor of one of the different forms we see today. Same DNA/RNA soup = similar DNA/RNA patterns in life today.

I'm not familiar with "gene splitting" or some of the other technical evidence that Dr. Senapathy rants about, but basically all his theory does is move the divergence of certain phyla waaaaayyyy back.

Humor me with some refutation.

-Reldas of Humor