Eight-Armed Enigma? Octopus Research Reveals Problems for Evolutionary Theory | Christian News Network

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“Just one more of many marvels of design in nature that are proving extremely problematic for evolutionists.”  Admin

An international team of researchers has concluded an in-depth genetic analysis of the octopus, and some say their just-released findings present deep problems for the theory of evolution.

The octopus has long been recognized as one of Earth’s most unusual creatures. Its intelligence, dexterity, and complexity are unparalleled among invertebrates. And, until last year, scientists had never fully mapped the genome of the octopus, so the eight-armed creature’s full genetic code remained a mystery.

Finally, in a journal article published in Nature this month, an international team of researchers from the U.S., Germany, and Japan describe the genetic composition of one octopus species—the California two-spot octopus.

“The octopus appears so utterly different from all other animals, even ones it’s related to, that the British zoologist Martin Wells famously called it an alien,” said neurobiologist Clifton Ragsdale, the study’s co-leader. “In that sense, you could say our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.”

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