# There's Too Many Microbes for Evolution!

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Published: 2026-01-23T14:00:09+00:00
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## Resource

In today's instalment of the Skeptic's Journey, they explain why they don't believe in evolution...and then shoot themselves in the foot with who they chose for their appeal to authority at the end. Cards: The Skeptic’s Journey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLbOEx_k9dkc9l0LAmbmSidFx-G3VgyUW Sex and Sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQplt7Chos Evidence for Evolution - Sequence Homology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNY2tcDdSc Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/225fyzpy Sources: Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli: https://tinyurl.com/26yyfkmn Rapid Evolution of Citrate Utilization by Escherichia coli by Direct Selection Requires citT and dctA: https://tinyurl.com/2d9y8lvg 1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China: https://tinyurl.com/282f5s45 The Origin of Animal Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation: https://tinyurl.com/29rp7czy The Science of Biological Sex: https://tinyurl.com/2d9a8xuw Sexual Attraction Is the Oldest Story on Earth: https://tinyurl.com/2bkbl2bn The evolution of sexes: A specific test of the disruptive selection theory: https://tinyurl.com/24addtyt Theory of the evolution of sexes tested with algae: https://tinyurl.com/299jnntj Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods: https://tinyurl.com/2fngztgt Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity: https://tinyurl.com/22m5oh8l Extrapolating abundance curves has no predictive power for estimating microbial biodiversity: https://tinyurl.com/2xwvljtv How many species are there on Earth? Progress and problems: https://tinyurl.com/29wcsahn Horizontal Gene Transfer: https://tinyurl.com/y7bnux4g Evolution of the NANOG pseudogene family in the h…

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