If you have Adobe Acrobat you can view a map for free, or print it out on a color printer. It is available from the state Department of Environmental Protection. Journey into the World of Cladistics. Cladistics provides valuable tools for establishing taxonomic relationships between species, and even deciding whether variants are separate species or the same. Nearctica's page on Archaea is quite good.
Halobacteria have diphytanyl ether membranes.
Here are some course notes about Halobacteria from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Christian de Duve , a Nobel prize winning scientist, has qualms about the RNA World hypothesis. World of Richard Dawkins a page about the ideas and writings of Richard Dawkins. In other words, arguments between science and religion inherently don't make any sense. The review is worth reading.