wow! Diatoms strike again. Apparently they had a urea cycle (but nothing like kidneys!) before metazoans were big:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511133553.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511133553.htm
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Pre-cambrian Animalistic Phytoplankton
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Well, if Darwinism is right, you'd expect that shurely?
I'm off to read the Good Book now, just in case Darwin was wrong.
Regards
Whacko
I checked in the Good Book under diatoms and lo, it said unto me:
Prepare ye not the diatom save with thy kidney-sheath or, low I will smite thee in thy loins and count-up the short remaining seconds of thy miserable life with a flute made of thy thigh bones.
Thus saith the LORD thy GOD.
Just kidding. No. The part about the thigh-bone flute I made up, but in burning letters I read all the rest and I was sore afraid and I quickly wrote a psalm or two all in the most perfect simple heart-felt haiku:
I see Diatoms
burning in the sea
my tears mean nothing
Burning in the sea
I see diatoms
my tears mean nothing
my tears mean nothing
I see diatoms
burning in the sea
and so on --