Bacteria as the backbone of life (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, January 15, 2015, 10:25 (3389 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by Balance_Maintained, Thursday, January 15, 2015, 10:31

This fits VERY strongly with my programming analogy, and also with the point I've been trying to make over the last few years that the order of creation is the way it is because it HAD to happen that way in order to support life.-
This Article Tries to trace speciation, and even has to struggle with that.->The researchers also traced 16 "housekeeping genes," important for survival, through each of the 56 strains. They tracked how the genes shifted position through the genome and changed, and used those changes to track when each lineage of bacteria split off from one another. For each gene, the researchers were able to create a phylogenetic or 'family' tree that grouped the Aeromonas into species, and then showed how those species were related to each other. Species that shared identical or very close versions of a housekeeping gene could be thought of as siblings, while species with quite different versions of that gene were more like distant cousins. Except there was a problem.
"None of those trees agreed," says Gogarten.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.