{"id":274106,"date":"2017-02-15T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=274106"},"modified":"2020-09-10T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:39:44","slug":"the-octopus-genome-not-alien-but-still-a-big-problem-for-darwinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/the-octopus-genome-not-alien-but-still-a-big-problem-for-darwinism\/","title":{"rendered":"The octopus genome: Not \u201calien\u201d but still a big problem for Darwinism"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Yes, of course, the first octopus came from the sky piloting a ufo\u2026 Maybe it\u2019s time for these \u201cscientists\u201d to consider a more rational approach like\u2026 life having been created by the Elohim?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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These days, new genomes of different types of organisms are being sequenced and published on a regular basis. When some new genome is sequenced, evolutionary biologists expect that it will be highly similar to the genomes of other organisms that are assumed to be closely related.<\/p>\n

As ENV already noted, the latest organism to have its genome sequenced has confounded that expectation: the octopus, whose genome was recently reported in Nature. It turns out to be so unlike other mollusks and other invertebrates that it\u2019s being called \u201calien\u201d by the scientists who worked on that project.<\/p>\n

One article on the subject was titled \u201cDon\u2019t freak out, but scientists think octopuses \u2018might be aliens\u2019 after DNA study\u201c:<\/p>\n

Not to send you into a meltdown or anything but octopuses are basically \u2018aliens\u2019 \u2014 according to scientists.<\/p>\n

Researchers have found a new map of the octopus genetic code that is so strange that it could be actually be an \u201calien\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities,\u201d said US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Analysis of 12 different tissues revealed hundreds of octopus-specific genes found in no other animal, many of them highly active in structures such as the brain, skin and suckers.<\/p>\n

Obviously no one thinks the octopus is an \u201calien\u201d from another planet. (Nature News quotes one co-author of the paper on the genome noting that the alien quip is a \u201cjoke.\u201d) But it certainly is alien to standard evolutionary expectations that genomes of related species ought to be highly similar.<\/p>\n

The Octopus Genome: Not “Alien” but Still a Big Problem for Darwinism<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n