Another Last Universal Common Ancestor Story

When talking about origins, several words and phrases are used but people usually know the topic because of the context. Neo-Darwinian synthesis is cumbersome, some say Neo-Darwinism, descent with modifications, and more.

The short form, Darwinism, raises hackles on some folks: "Nobody believes that anymore!" and then  use his version of natural selection, saying, "Natural selection is evolution." (Or worse, that it is science!) Common descent is also used. They want to find the last universal common ancestor that supposedly ties all living things together.

Swamp near Hudson River, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen (modified at photofunny)

LUCA (not to be confused with the short-lived Roman author Lucan) is presumed to live billions of years ago, and it has several attributes. The components of LUCA also had to somehow break on through to the other side of the Creation Information Barrier in chemical evolution. No, old son, only the Creator can make life, not biological information — and that biological information had to be created as well.

Did it come from Darwin's "warm little pond" idea? Not hardly!

Scientists are making bold but unsupportable assertions, slapping leather with each other over the details — but the thing has never been observed. It couldn't be, and is only inferred by the presuppositions inherent in the Neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis. That doesn't stop them from making false promises and using the complex scientific principle of Making Things Up™.

I reckon that somewhere, Darwin's disciples on teh interwebz are reading about this organism evolutionists "know" existed and are saying, "Take that, creatards!" Some people prefer to have their biases confirmed rather than use critical thinking skills.

Evolutionists utilize a theoretical tree of life that takes people, plants, and animals back into deep evolutionary time to an unobserved, unknown, hypothetical last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Whatever this organism was, they maintain, it was the ancestor of all life and evolved in turn from nonliving chemicals.

In July of 2024, Science magazine confidently reported, “The last ancestor shared by all living organisms was a microbe that lived 4.2 billion years ago, had a fairly large genome encoding some 2600 proteins, enjoyed a diet of hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, and harbored a rudimentary immune system for fighting off viral invaders.”

To read about the audacity of those evolutionists, see "Evolution's Hypothetical Last Universal Common Ancestor."