Image courtesy of . Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial Ecology
Joel Kontinen
Millions of years
and evolution seem to go together, yet research
says that here are faults in dating methods is significant that the Darwinist will
be silent on.
For them, millions
of years is almost secret, that cannot
be disproved.
New Stcitentis says:
“Microorganisms
have been found living in tiny cracks within a 2-billion-year-old rock in South
Africa, making this the oldest known rock to host life. The discovery could
offer new insights into the origins of life on Earth and may even guide the
search for life beyond our planet.
We already knew
that deep within Earth’s crust, far removed from sunlight, oxygen and food
sources, billions of resilient micro-organisms survive. Living
in extreme isolation, these slow-growing microbes divide at a glacial pace,
sometimes taking thousands or even millions of years to complete cell division.
“So far, the
oldest rocks in which microbes have been found are 100-million-year-old
seafloor sediments,” says Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo. “We
know it’s possible that microbes can grow using something in these ancient
rocks.”
Now, Suzuki and his colleagues have pushed that record
back by nearly 2 billion years. They
obtained a 30-centimetre-long cylindrical rock core from 15 metres below the
surface of the Bushveld Igneous Complex in north-eastern South Africa, a vast
formation of volcanic rock that formed more than 2 billion years ago. When
they sliced open the core, they discovered microbial cells living in the rock’s
tiny fractures.”
Source:
Chen Ly, 2024. Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock | New Scientist 10 October.
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