"A paper in Geology describes the discovery of living cysts of a dinoflagellate (a marine unicellular organism with a flagellum) in southeast Asia. It was supposed to have gone extinct in the early Pleistocene, but then has reappeared today in several spots
from Japan to the Philippines. How do evolutionists explain its persistence unchanged for millions of years? A press release from the University of Ghent offers the idea of a “refuge” from extinction and evolution:
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| Some dinoflagellate at night |
This unicellular species, with planktonic and benthic stages, was previously thought to have become extinct within the early Pleistocene. It evolved more than 50 million years ago and is the last survivor of a major early Cenozoic lineage. The discovery of living D. pastielsii in the IPWP [Indo-Pacific Warm Pool] suggests that this stable environment served as an important refuge for thermophilic dinoflagellates, and its disappearance from the Atlantic following the early Pleistocene implicates cooling.
The early Pleistocene starts at 2.5 million years ago. That’s a long time for isolated locations on earth to maintain a stable environment while the rest of the world was cooling. It’s also a long time for the creature to escape evolution so much that it is recognizable from fossils more than 50 million years old on the geologic time scale." CEH
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
Genesis 1:20