According to a report by Live
Science, evolutionists claim they may have found the answer to how simple
microbial lifeforms may have been able to acquire the genetic information
needed for complex forms of life to evolve from lifeforms of a less complex
nature and for an increase in biological diversity. Live Science reported:
In a new genetic survey of ocean mud
and seawater, researchers found evidence that the closest known microbial
cousins of plants and animals — a group known as Asgard archaea — carry the
molecular gear to handle oxygen, and possibly even convert it into energy.
Previously, many Asgards studied were associated with oxygen-poor areas.
That twist could help explain one of
biology's most important origin stories, as experts think a simple microbe
fused with a bacterium and, over time, developed into more complex cells that
created everything from redwoods to people. But this ancient meet-cute, while
compelling, has an awkward problem: How did these two find each other and work
together in the first place? [1]
Asgard archaea receives its name from
the dwelling place of the fabled Nordic gods and were initially discovered in
deep sea sediments near the Loki’s Castle hydrothermal vent. [2]
Evolutionists believe these type of
archaea to be closely related to Eukaryotes, which are a broad group of
organisms characterized by cells containing features such as nucleus and
various membrane-bound organelles, and from which evolutionists believed all
organic life had evolved, but most presently living Asgards are found in
environments without oxygen, which Eukaryotes need to survive.
But according to Live Science,
there is a branch of Asgard Archaea that are able to live in oxidized
environments which possess “a lot of metabolic pathways that use oxygen.” [3]
The science publication, Nature,
published a report that went even further in depth as to the nature of these
Archaea and not only that, they revealed this class of Archaea to be much more
diverse than what was reported by Live Science:
Here we use massive DNA sequencing of
marine sediments to obtain 404 Asgardarchaeota metagenome-assembled genomes,
including 136 new Heimdallarchaeia and several novel lineages. Analyses of
their global distribution revealed they are widespread in marine environments,
and many are enriched in variably oxygenated coastal sediments… We conducted massive DNA sequencing of coastal and deep sea sediments to
increase the genomic sampling of Asgard archaea, expanding diversity and
enabling the detailed inferences of their metabolism across environments…
To distinguish lineage and
environmental-specific metabolic features, we clustered the Asgard genomes into
defined groups on the basis of their shared protein composition…
This resulted in 12 Asgardarchaeota
guilds, each with similar metabolic functions. Heimdallarchaeia split into five
guilds: guilds 8 (Njordarchaeales), 9 (Heimdallarchaeaceae and
Kariarchaeaceae), 10 (Gerdarchaeales), 11 (Hodarchaeales) and 12 (Kariarchaeaceae
and Hodarchaeales), enabling us to determine guild-specific traits. We used
comparative analyses to identify a set of uniquely conserved protein-coding
genes for each of the 17 taxonomic groups (class through family), 12 guilds and
12 environments from which MAGs have been extracted. The Hodarchaeales-containing guilds 11 and 12
are distinct and have more complex metabolic capabilities than the other
guilds, including flexibility in both carbon and energy sources. We also conducted comparative analyses to
assess whether these groups harboured ESPs and an increased genome size typical
of eukaryotes…
We also identified 30 Asgard
representatives that were unclassified or mislabelled as another archaeal group
in public databases…
To distinguish lineage and
environmental-specific metabolic features, we clustered the Asgard genomes into
defined groups on the basis of their shared protein composition…
This resulted in 12 Asgardarchaeota
guilds, each with similar metabolic functions. Heimdallarchaeia split into five
guilds: guilds 8 (Njordarchaeales), 9 (Heimdallarchaeaceae and
Kariarchaeaceae), 10 (Gerdarchaeales), 11 (Hodarchaeales) and 12 (Kariarchaeaceae
and Hodarchaeales), enabling us to determine guild-specific traits. We used
comparative analyses to identify a set of uniquely conserved protein-coding
genes for each of the 17 taxonomic groups (class through family), 12 guilds and
12 environments from which MAGs have been extracted. The
Hodarchaeales-containing guilds 11 and 12 are distinct and have more complex
metabolic capabilities than the other guilds, including flexibility in both
carbon and energy sources. We also conducted comparative analyses to assess
whether these groups harboured ESPs and an increased genome size typical of
eukaryotes. This showed that Heimdallarchaeia and MAGs from shallow environ-
ments (<200 metres below sea level, mbsl) have many ESPs and an increased
genome size typical of Eukaryotes.
[4]
[ESPs being Eukaryotic signature
proteins and MAGs being metagenome assembled genomes.]
Evolutionists believe that a simple
microbe, which the Nature publication reports scientists theorizing to
have been an Asgard archaea, [5] was merged
with a bacteria [6] which scientists identify as being
an alphaproteobacteria [7] based upon what is described as
co-occurrence, that is the presence of alphaproteobacteria residing within
archaea [8] which is believed to enable archaea
to exist in oxygenated environments [9] thus leading
evolutionists to claim that there must have been a symbiotic relationship
between the first archaea and the alphaproteobacteria that they believed lived
inside of them as alphproteobacteria are able to exist in oxygenated environments
whereas archaea which do not possess these bacteria cannot, but Nature,
to its credit, cautions “that the observed co-occurrence does not confirm
symbiotic interaction.” [10]
In other words, co-occurrence does not prove that there was a merger.
But if there was a merger between a
microbe and a bacteria, how did it happen? A question that evolutionists admit
that they cannot answer.
And which came first? The Asgard
archaea or the alphaproteobacteria? Another question that evolutionists cannot
answer.
Or, did the Asgard archaea and the
alphaproteobacteria evolve simultaneously? And if they did evolve, from what
did both evolve? What was their common ancestor?
And if even if there was a merger
between an archaea and a bacterium at some point, would that merger have been
enough to produce enough genetic information and potential to produce the
various forms of life that has ever existed and that we see today?
But aside from all of that, what if the
archaea and alphaproteobacteria never did exist independently of one another?
What if this archaea already had this alphaproteobacterial built into it?
Because apparently, those archaea in which this bacteria does not dwell cannot
dwell in an oxygenated environment and the only way it could do so is if it
already had the mechanisms built into it to be able to live in an oxygenated
environment; that mechanism being this alphaproteobacteria residing within the archaea.
Both archaea and alphaproteobacteria,
like any other form of organic life, have only a limited amount of genetic
information and what each produces, they can only produce within the confines
of the genetic information available which will be organisms after their
respective kinds and even if they did exchange genetic information with one
another, there would still be limits on what could be produced from that. In order for all life to have evolved from
this combination, that genetic potential would have already had to been in
place. You can get a number of different
combinations from AAaaBBbb, and information can even be lost or even
duplicated, but what you cannot get from AAaaBBbb is WKRPINCINCINATTI;
information that was not already there.
So, even if the archaea and
alphaproteobacteria were able to share genetic information with one another,
that still would not necessarily provide an answer as to how something like a
tree, a dinosaur, a man, or even a fish, amphibian, or invertebrate could
evolve from eukaryotic organisms as plants, animals, and even man possess an
immense amount of genetic information and complexity that is obviously not
present within eukaryotic cellular organisms because in order for this to be
biologically possible, both archaea and the alphaproteobacterial they possess
would have to possess together an immense amount of genetic potential for this to
happen and they don’t.
And just because genetic information
is exchanged and shared between two different organisms, that does not
necessarily all that is shared between the two organisms is necessarily
beneficial; some of what may be shared and exchanged can even be harmful, and
if it could be shown that genetic information can and is being shared between
the Asgard archaea and any alphaproteobacterial within them, then could the
same thing be taking place within other living things and certain bacterium
living within them as well?
What influence might that be having
on their DNA and genome and in the way that genetic information is combined,
organized, and replicated?
How might this affect even embryonic
and fetal development?
Whatever influence any exchange or
sharing of genetic information between two organisms may overall have on the
overall structure of the DNA and genome of any given life form, it is still not
enough to produce the amount of genetic potential required for evolution to
take place.
The Asgard archaea will only continue
to produce more Asgard archaea.
Bacteria will only continue to
produce bacteria.
Worms will only continue to produce
worms.
Insects will only continue to produce
insects.
Fish will only continue producing
fish.
Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts,
lizards, and serpents will only continue reproducing after their own respective
kinds.
Birds will only continue reproducing
after their own respective kinds, as will other animals after their own
respective kinds,
Plants and trees will only continue
to reproduce after their own respective kinds,
And mankind will only continue to
produce mankind because that is what all living things were created to do.
(Gen. 1:12, 21, 24, 25)
They were never meant to produce
anything else other than what is after their own respective kinds and that is
why we will never see archaea giving rise to worms or worms producing snakes,
or rats producing cats, or cats producing dogs, or dogs producing horses or
pigs, or primates producing men because it is not biologically possible for
them to do so.
But despite the fact that all we
presently see are living things reproducing after their own respective kinds, and
never anything different than themselves, evolutionists still persist on their
search for anything that they can use to discredit the Word of God, beginning
with the Genesis account of creation because they cannot stand the fact that
there is a God to whom all life owes its existence and by whose hands all
things are made and before whom we will all have to give an account. They distain having to submit themselves to
His authority because they love sin instead of righteousness and take more
pleasure in the things of darkness rather than in the things of the light and
it is not enough for them to reject Heaven for themselves, but they will do everything
they can to keep others, who might otherwise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
from doing so by suppressing anything that might lead to the embracing of that
very truth which comes from God alone because it is God who is truth (Jn. 14:6)
and they, through their philosophy, work tirelessly to blind and turn away as
many as they can from the very truth that reconciles us to our Creator through
the redemption and cleansing of our souls because we are all born fallen
creatures separated and estranged from our Creator but because of a blindness
to our nature due to lies taken for truth and sciences falsely so-called, we
are made blind to our fallen state and even made blind to the existence of the
God who made us and before we will one day stand and who will hand out final
rewards and final sentences according to all that we have said and done in this
present life, how we lived our lives, and what we lived our lives for and in
blinding us to our fallen nature and to the existence of our Maker, we then are
also made blind to the way of redemption that He has set forth for us and to
our need for redemption because in order for men to be redeemed, they first
have to know that they are lost and why they are lost because until they know
that they are lost and why, they will never see their need for redemption but
in order them to see their need for redemption, there must be an understand as
to what it is they need to be redeemed from and not only must there be an
understanding of what it is that we need to be redeemed from, there must be an
understanding as to what it is that estranges us from our Creator and how that
estrangement and separation that would otherwise not exist came to be and in
order to understand that, we must first understand how God meant for things to
be and what God had created the world to be before its present state.
When God had created the world, there
was no death or suffering in it but was a world in which existed only life,
peace, happiness, and contentment with a perfect and uninterrupted harmony
between God, man, and nature but that harmony became disrupted when the first
man Adam and the first woman Eve, who was the wife of Adam, had committed a
fateful and consequential act of disobedience and that was the eating of a
fruit from a certain kind of tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, having been warned by God that in the day that they ate of that fruit,
they would surely die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) and when they had eaten of that
forbidden fruit, the sentence of death was pronounced upon them just as they
had been warned (Gen. 3:19) but the sentence of death did not stop with Adam
and Eve for it was in that day when Adam and Eve ate of that forbidden fruit
that sin entered into them and from them, the sin which entered into them and
brought about their eventual deaths, was also passed down to all of mankind for
all of us are descendants of that first man and that first woman and because we
are their descendants, we have also inherited the sin that entered into them
(Rom. 5:12) and because of that sin which we have inherited, we all sin in some
form or fashion and as a consequence we all die for as it is written, the wages
of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) but sin is not merely confined to outward behavior
or performance or even the words we speak, but it is rather the inherent inward
corruption of our very nature defiling our thoughts, hardening and darkening
our hearts, and corrupting our very motives which is why it is written that we
are not defiled from that which comes from without, but that which comes from
within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) and which is why it is written that all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) which demands of us nothing
less than moral perfection and not just in our outward acts but also in our
inward as well which is why it is impossible by our own efforts and our own
goodness to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for sin taints, corrupts,
defiles, twists, and distorts more than we can comprehend and the effects of
sin are not merely confined to mankind, but all of creation is subjected to a
curse because of sin which is why it is written that the entire creation groans
and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22) and because of the pervasive
effects that sin has on all that it touches, Heaven cannot afford to allow that
which is sin or they who are still in their sins into enter into its Kingdom
lest the Kingdom of Heaven become every bit as defiled and as fallen and as
miserable of a place as the earth has become and in order for Heaven to remain
a place in which nothing but happiness, peace, joy, and contentment before the
Lord, nothing that is sinful can ever enter in which means nothing that is
unregenerated and unredeemed can ever enter in and without redemption, there
can be nothing that anyone will ever have to look forward to except an eternity
of unrelenting torment in the darkness and fires of Hell; forever separated
from God and from the things of God and there is coming a day when God will
eventually wash and cleanse His creation from the effects of sin and from all
things that are of sin which requires the elimination of all who are still in
their sins on that day but because of His love for mankind, God, in His mercy,
compassion, and grace, is not willing that any should perish in eternal
damnation, but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) by offering them
redemption and redemption He has provided on our behalf in Christ Jesus, His
only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us in the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being
without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was made that perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27)
that was needed to take away the sins of the world and because of His perfect
goodness, He was able to offer Himself up on our behalf to satisfy the demanded
penalty for all sin and granting mercy and grace through the shedding of His
blood on the cross and after having died, rose again from the dead three days
later that we might be justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon
His name so that we might be saved from what would otherwise be a terrifying
everlasting punishment if we will but call upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and
believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is
by calling upon His name in sincere repentance that salvation is granted and
our souls made clean from sin thereby liberating us from the threat of eternal
damnation and with that cleansing comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor.
5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly
pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those
things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that
which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the
lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ
Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6)
no longer placing our hopes in the
things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world
to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly
resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our
needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs,
recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into
our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and
that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our
provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt. 6:25-33)
to no longer fear what men can do to
us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an
account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible
institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God
who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our
lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His
Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our
lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but
the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible
men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that
those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and
servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves
with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of
the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, (Jas.
1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer
justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
And just as we have been redeemed
spiritually, so one day we look forward to the liberation of our bodies from
death itself when our mortal and corruptible forms are transformed into that
which is immortal and incorruptible and from that which is imperfect to that
which is perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation
itself will be delivered from the curse placed upon it because of sin when it
is made into a new and better world (Rev. 21-22)
But the evolutionists deny that death
and suffering are a consequence of sin but instead claim that death and
suffering have always been a part of the natural cycle of life.
They deny that mankind is inherently
evil but instead believe that the evil tendencies of mankind are just as much
of a product of nature as his tendencies towards goodness and therefore deny a
judgment to come because they deny the existence of a God who is going to judge
and eliminate the evil and wickedness from this world and those who believe
this lie are on the broad wide path that leads to eternal damnation but
evolution is not the only lie that is used to blind mankind to the danger of
eternal damnation and their need for repentance and redemption, but it is one
of many lies that is being used by the father of lies (Jn. 8:44) to keep as
many away from God and lead into eternal damnation as he possibly can and this
father of lies has been at war against the source of truth which is God even
ever before the creation of the world and it is an age-long war that began when
this father of lies, before he became the father of lies, had once served at
throne of God as a covering cherub named Lucifer until the day that he became
so filled with conceit and so lifted up in his pride that he thought to make
himself equal with God which ended with him and all who sided with him to be
cast from their places in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) and it was in
that day that Lucifer became known as Satan or the Devil and it was he who told
the lie which led Adam and Eve to eat of that forbidden fruit by which sin had
entered into them and corrupted their very nature and then was passed down to
the rest of mankind who also die as a consequence of the sinful condition that
they inherited from Adam and Eve, which then subjugated all of creation to the
death and suffering that abounds in it now, and it was that very lie that made
Satan the father of lies (Jn. 8:44) and by that lie, he diminished the dominion
initially given to man (Gen. 1:26) and claimed lordship over the nations and
kingdoms of the earth (Mt. 4:8-7, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is called the
prince of this world (Jn. 12:13, 16:11) who is overseeing the death, decay,
evil, sin, and suffering that abounds in this world and the slow, painful, and
agonizing death of what God has created.
By a lie did bondage to sin and death
come into the world.
By a lie was creation itself subject
to a curse due to sin.
By a lie was the dominion mandate
initially given to mankind (Gen. 1:26) diminished and usurped.
And worst of all, by a lie was a
separation between God and man placed due to sin and it is by lies that men are
kept out of the Kingdom of Heaven to this day and it is lies that lead
multitudes of souls into an eternity of perpetual darkness and an everlasting
and unrelenting torment.
And if lies were the beginning of
bondage, captivity, and oppression, then truth is the beginning of liberty for
He who is the source of truth is also the source of our liberty which when
embraced leads to the cleansing and the redemption of the soul in Christ Jesus
who is our Lord and our Savior and who by His death purchased our redemption
and then was raised from the dead that we in Him would be made justified before
God the Father and after spiritual redemption, for those who have placed their
trust in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and for the redemption of
their souls, comes the eventual redemption of the body from sin and death, and
finally the liberating of creation itself, and the final defeat of Satan who is
the adversary of God and of our souls when he receives his final sentence and
is cast in to the lake of fire where he will be tormented for all eternity
(Rev. 20:10-15) along with all who have sided with him and his lies. (Mt.
25:41)
If you have not done so already and
wish to be on the side of truth and not on the side of lies, then I urge you
reader to call upon the name of the one who is the way, the truth, and the life
(Jn. 14:6) and who is that very truth that sets free (Jn. 8:32) for the
forgiveness of sins and surrender yourself to His authority. It is but a simple prayer of repentance away:
"Lord Jesus I need you.
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of
God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know that God is not concerned with
the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of
your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive
you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in
nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
End notes:
1.
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, “Ancient 'Asgard' microbe may have used oxygen
long before it was plentiful on Earth, offering new clue to origins of complex
life,” Live Science February 20, 2026
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/ancient-asgard-microbe-may-have-used-oxygen-long-before-it-was-plentiful-on-earth-offering-new-clue-to-origins-of-complex-life?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Kathryn E. Appler, James P. Lingford, Xianzhe
Gong, Kassiani Panagiotou, Pedro Leão, Marguerite V. Langwig, Chris Greening,
Thijs J. G. Ettema, Valerie De Anda & Brett J. Bake “Oxygen metabolism in
descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor” Nature (PDF) pp. 1-2 February 18, 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10128-z.epdf?sharing_token=CEafbFUAlJBI2-hm6_rr_dRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O9EJ8Oq5RpOqLJwfn_LSc0bYuv7X8qJtTG1qLvDF-HTOUdEXkq9DghmARsU9KtrOQTomQxQ_zVhhOklIzkqsavTg8EsT41NNXkh7LqZp0czfpDTk1kxrS0ciDJCNVBNtbqunh4-Td5R6vpW1MApeQYQPouqACNrIXIkWitb_6c-q5m4vU0gS-vACezdts6Fbg%3D&tracking_referrer=www.livescience.com
5. Ibid. pg. 1
6. Castleberry, Live Science, February 20, 2026
7. Nature, pg. 1, February 18, 2026
8. Ibid. pg. 4
9. Castleberry, Live Science, February 20, 2026
10. Nature, pg. 4, February 18, 2026
Scripture
references:
1. Genesis 1:12, 21, 24, 25
2. John 14:6
3. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
4. Genesis 3:19
5. Romans 5:12
6. Romans 6:23
7. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
8. Romans 3:23
9. Romans 8:19-22
10. 2 Peter 3:9
11. John 3:16
12. John 1:14
13. 2 Corinthians 5:21
14. Hebrews 7:26-27
15. Romans 4:25
16. Romans 10:9, 13
17. 2 Corinthians 5:17
18. Revelation 21-22
19. Matthew 6:25-33
20. Matthew 10:28
21. James 1:5
22. 2 Corinthians 5:18
23. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18
24. John 8:44
25. Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
26. Genesis 1:26
27. Matthew 4:8-9
28. Luke 4:6-7
29. John 12:31
30. John 16:11
31. Revelation 20:10-15
32. Matthew 25:41
33. John 8:32
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