Does microbiology support traditional evolutionary theory of human origins?

It does in quite a dramatic way.
  Advances in the last decade allow scientists to 'read the DNA' .

  Every cell of any organism has DNA,  which encodes the inherited
 properties. Different organisms have different DNA sequence, but
 all use the same 'alphabet'  to encode the content.

 DNA analysis  can confirm identity 
(can confirm that two cells came from
the  same person) which is currently used to solve crimes.

 Same analysis  is used to trace human migration.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050200sci-genetics-evolution.1.GIF.html:
  

It can be used to trace evolution of primates:
 http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Primates&contgroup=Eutheria 
and more specifically of  Hominidae
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Hominidae&contgroup=Catarrhini
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/media/anat/family_pages/primates/hominidae.jpg

The field which compares DNA of different species is called
'comparative genomics' . This site has educational charts,
which describe how different species are related.
 http://www.jgi.doe.gov/education/posters.html

  The common origin of all species has been confirmed by the
  advances in molecular biology and genetics. However, not
  everything Darwin wrote is accepted. In Darwin's times there
 were two theories: catastrophism and evolution. Darwin, as his
 contemporaries, believed that it is 'either - or'  while contemporary
 view is that both mechanism coexisted (great extinctions did
 happened, and were modified by the course of evolution).

 Science, which represents organized human knowledge does evolve,
 old wisdom needs to be studied, and sometime modified.

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For evolution to be true, then every part of every living thing must
have evolved, and I understand that to mean that living organisms
change slowly with each generation. So I pose the question : Can an
organisms eye evolve. To even work properly, it must be fully formed.
Insects, animals, sea creatures and man all have eyes, enabling all of
them to see, and seeing helps them survive. Eyes just cannot develop
slowly, they have to be there immediately, ready to do their job. So
my answer to the riddle is found at Genesis 1;20 in the Bible. God mad
everything. nothing evolved. Q.E.D.

Why in the world does the Creation vs. Evolution controversy die so
hard?  My theory includes the fact that a whole culture came into
being in the USA, which required that the Negro slaves be considered
as animals, (i.e. without souls), in order to justify the horrendous
treatment they received.  Evolution includes the fact, not only that
monkeys are our "ancestors", but also that blacks are the ancestors of
whites.  Given the "slave holders' culture", this simply had to be
refuted, and the absolute arguments against Evolution survive to this
day, (along with the racism).
We could get into endless specifics, such as the fact that
rudimentary, "primitive eye spots" do exist, and "grand leaps" are
possible, within evolutionary concepts, such as the leap to a "pure
albino" individual, with no "half colored" ones leading up to the
albino.

But the simple fact governing this question, is that God has the right
to use evolution to create Mankind, if He/She wishes to.  If God wants
to use millions of years, to create everything, who are we, (the
potter's clay), to protest, and require that God create with "magic". 
Certainly, almost every Christian understands that some statements in
the Bible are symbolic statements, with symbolic meanings.   If you
are one of those who believe that all statements in the Bible can only
be literally true, I have a bridge in Manhattan I would like to sell
to you.
So, pugwashjw-GA, I agree with you, that God made everything, and that
does not prove that nothing evolved. It seems clear to me, aquinas-GA,
that all the theory of evolution is certainly not contradicted by any
of the findings of microbiology.

With respect, I personally wouldn't be happy with the answer to this
questions.  The answerer has not yet made any reference to the word
"microbiology" specifically asked about as the main subject of the
question.  I would suggest he/she should add a clarification in this
regard.  Instead he/she has focussed on the insights "molecular
biology" have contributed to our understanding of evolution.

Alas I do not know enough either about microbiology, so I cannot give
a good answer to this question.  However I do know that it is about
microbes, which have not been discussed yet, except in the "all
species are related" sense.  I believe there is a lot of work done on
actually comparing bacterial DNA to that of humans, which gives
significant insights into something I'm sure :-).

Microbiological experiments have shown that natural selection can
drive speciation. The theory of the origin of species through natural
selection includes all organisms: microbes, plants, animals,
everything. Since humans are animals, humans are included. So, yes,
microbiology supports "current evolutionary theory".