For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth...
Colossians 1:16
"A microscopic multicellular animal, a bdelloid rotifer, was revived
after being frozen in permafrost supposedly for 24,000 years. It was
recovered in north-eastern Siberia after drilling 3.5m below the
surface. Despite being the longest reported case of rotifer survival,
when defrosted it quickly went on to reproduce.
“The takeaway is that a multicellular organism can be frozen and
stored as such for thousands of years and then return back to life — a
dream of many fiction writers,” said Stas Malavin, one of the lead
researchers.
---Study of the animal showed it already had “effective
biochemical mechanisms of organ and cell shielding necessary to survive
low temperatures.” Ice crystals, normally detrimental for cells, could
therefore form relatively slowly, and the rotifer survive.
Some were keen to apply such biological knowledge to cryobiology or
biotechnology. However, Malavin cautioned, “Of course, the more complex
the organism, the trickier it is to preserve it alive frozen and, for
mammals, it’s not currently possible. Yet, moving from a single-celled
organism to an organism with a gut and brain, though microscopic, is a
big step forward.”
Researchers ascribed the amazing ability to survive frozen permafrost
to evolution, but it belongs instead to the creator God of Genesis.
Without such ability already being present no resuscitation
would have been possible. For context, the bdelloid rotifers would have
been frozen in the permafrost towards the end of the Ice Age, around
4,000 years ago, after Noah’s Flood." CMI
