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It used to be assumed, more or less, that, if you simply threw enough time at the problem of the origin of life on Earth, that puzzle would effectively solve itself. \u00a0After all, given random chance and enough time, essentially anything is possible, right?<\/p>\n
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Now, we\u2019re finding that life appeared on Earth as soon as it was physically possible for it do so \u2014 sooner, in fact, than we had even thought<\/em> it possible.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s really interesting.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n
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And oh yes, by the way: \u00a0I\u2019m reliably informed that I\u2019m a young-earth creationist. \u00a0The Earth, in my view \u2014 or, anyway, in what I\u2019m told<\/em> is my view (and isn\u2019t that pretty much the same thing?) \u2014 was created just a few thousand years ago.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the_earliest_evidence_for_life_on_earth.html \u00a0 It used to be assumed, more or less, that, if you simply threw enough time at the problem of the origin of life on Earth, that puzzle would effectively solve itself. \u00a0After all, given random chance and enough time, essentially anything is possible, right? \u00a0 Now, we\u2019re finding that life appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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