I wasn't going to do any posting tod- ... tonight except for one but when I saw this story I had to post about. Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the [...]

Zoologger: 'Living beach ball' is giant single cell The cell branches and splits into hundreds of tubes, which ramify and interconnect in a hugely complex network. It also bends the single-cell convention of having only a single nucleus: Syringammina has many, scattered throughout the tubes. As the cell proliferates, it builds up a crusty structure [...]

The irreducible complexity argument was developed by Michael Behe and first used in his book Darwin's Black Box. The argument is that some biological systems are so complex that they can not have evolved though mutation and natural selection; it you remove one peace, it brakes, it no longer functions. Creationists often use the analogy [...]