Once again, scientific evidence supports Creation, and yet, once again, scientists are looking for other ways to “interpret” newly discovered data. The latest evidence supporting creationism comes from the sea—the location evolutionists have suggested is the site of the origin of all life. Located around reefs and lagoons is a type of coral known by the scientific name of Acropora millepora. Coral is a marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton. Because evolutionists consider coral as quite primitive (i.e., it is an invertebrate that does not have a complex nervous system), they have assumed that the genes contained within this type of coral would differ greatly from that of humans. As Robert Saint of the Australian National University in Canberra noted: “The assumption was that coral would lack many of the genes found in higher animals” (as quoted in Dennis, 2003). However, the results of a comparative study tell an entirely different story.

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The bottom line? The gene sequences found in this species of coral are closer to humans than they are to fruit flies or nematode roundworms.

...Seeking to establish A. millepora's place in this evolutionary history, Miller and his colleagues performed a genetic analysis on the coral's larval form. They identified DNA sequences known as expressed sequence tags (ESTs), which derive from active genes in tissue. All told, the scientists came up with almost 1,400 distinct coral ESTs.

Next, they scanned databases of other creatures' genes for DNA sequences that match the coral ESTs. The vast majority of the coral ESTs correspond to DNA sequences shared by all multicellular animals. However, about 12 percent of the coral ESTs had a corresponding human gene but no match in the worm and fly DNA. Until this finding, those human genes were presumed to be specific to vertebrates.

"The study makes clear that many genes previously thought to be vertebrate innovations were in fact invented long before the origin of the vertebrates," says Finnerty.