No Evidence for Endosymbiosis and Evolution

Something of interests to both secular and creation scientists is mutualism (or symbiosis), but believers in particles-to-parole officer evolution have a mighty difficult time explaining it. The usual response can be restated as, "It evolved." Not an answer, old son.

Another form of mutualism is endosymbiosis, where one organism lives inside another and both are the better for it. Evolutionists believe that endosymbiosis was a vital step forward in the evolution of life. Basically, an archaeon (a kind of microorganism) gulped down a bacterium and evolution took a big step forward.

Endosymbiosis, Wikimedia Commons / Signbrowser (PD)

Got evidence? It's a mite difficult since we're talking about historical science, after all. Researchers first presupposed evolution (of course), and they injected a bacterium into a fungus. That happens in nature anyway, but they extrapolated madly backward in time and claimed they had evidence supporting this phase of evolution. Not hardly! They're still kicking against the goads in denying evidence for the Creator.

One of the largest (and most important) gaps in the fossil record is the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes (see illustration below). A eukaryotic cell, or a cell that contains membrane-bound structures, is the basis for every multicellular organism, including animals, plants, and humans as well as a few unicellular organisms such as protozoa. The prokaryote cells are all single celled organisms such as bacteria. The eukaryote cell is also from 100 to 10,000 times larger than prokaryotic cells. As Christian Hallman stated, “evolution made a big leap towards complex life forms when eukaryotic cells appeared.” The most widely accepted attempt to fill this large gap is the theory of endosymbiosis popularized by Lynn Margulis.

The rest of the article is seen at "Is Endosymbiosis Supported by Evidence?"