What are tardigrades and why are they nearly indestructible?
Tardigrades are near-microscopic animals that can survive some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, including freezing temperatures, crushing pressures, and even the vacuum of space.
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Tardigrades are near-microscopic animals that can survive some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, including freezing temperatures, crushing pressures, and even the vacuum of space.
The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists.
Credit: Photo by Shodo MTOW Tsukuba, Japan - If a creature with eight legs, a large abdomen, and lots of eyes comes crawling your way, even if you have never seen one like it before, you know instinctively that it is a spider. Likewise, an animal with wings, feathers, and a beak is unlikely to be mistaken for anything other than a bird. The common features of a group of animals that make them immediately recognizable are often called a ground plan or body plan, and have traditionally been used to categorize animals. More recently, researchers have found that comparative embryology, the study...