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THE JINN distinct line which preceded all others. Thus it is they who should be entitled as the most ancient ancestors of life. . Woese and his collaborators continued to pour strong evidence into this discovery and as the ice began to thaw, according to Woese: ‘Although a few biologists still few biologists still dispute our interpretation, the idea that archaebacteria represent a separate grouping at the highest level is becoming generally accepted. ". Again he writes: ,6 'This implies that the methanogens are as old as or older than any other bacterial group. 56. According to The Hutchinson Dictionary of Science: ". . . the archaebacteria are related to the earliest life forms, which appeared about 4 billion years ago, when there was little oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. ". But the author of Genetics a Molecular Approach states: 'Since 1977 more and more differences between archaebacteria and other prokaryotes have been found, so much so that microbiologists now favour the term archaea, to emphasize that these organisms are distinct from bacteria. " 7 ,8. HE ORGANISMS REFERRED TO AS JINN in the Quran seem to fit the above description. But, though scientists unanimously describe these bacteria as possessing the potential of drawing their energy from heat, they are not mentioned as having been originally created directly by the cosmic rays and blasts of lightning by any scientist other than Dickerson. The rest however, continue to unveil more mysteries with further research. 366