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According to the tree based on ribosomal RNA, the evo-
lutionary ancestor split into two branches, archaea and
bacteria. Later still, eukarya developed from archaea.
Yet, recently sequenced microbial genomes and compar-
isons with eukaryotic genomes such as yeast conflict
with this claim and represent yet another dilemma for
evolutionists.

by Elizabeth Pennisi and published in the journal Science, revealed
that analyses at the molecular level had shaken the evolutionists' so-
called evolutionary tree and that the results were contradictory:

Since then, he [evolutionist Carl Woese] and others have used rRNA
comparisons to construct a "tree of life," showing the evolutionary re-
lationships of a wide variety of organisms, both big and small.
According to this rRNA-based tree, billions of years ago a universal
common ancestor gave rise to the two microbial branches, the ar-
chaea and bacteria (collectively called prokarya). Later, the archaea
gave rise to the eukarya. But the newly sequenced microbial genomes
and comparisons with eukaryotic genomes such as yeast have been
throwing this neat picture into disarray, raising doubts about the clas-
sification of all of life. 21
Pennisi stated that the bacterium Aquifex aeolicus, which lives at a
temperature close to boiling point and whose DNA sequence has been
unravelled, made concrete the problems facing molecular evolutionists.
Robert Feldman, a molecular geneticist and one of the scientists in-
volved in the study of the bacterium, summed up his results at the
Conference on Microbial Genome held at Hilton Head, North Carolina,

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