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RomneyLies

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12. We have no clue where life began
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 09:49 PM
Dec 2012

For you to suggest it could only have begun in a single hydrothermic vent under the ocean rather than possibly in multiple vents in multiple locations under the ocean is ludicrous when identical conditions existed in multiple vents in multiple locations.

ESPECIALLY when you look at the diversity of lifeforms in the Permian period. My gosh, man, 97% of marine species went extinct in the Permian-Triassic extinction event!

Interesting, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #1
That's why it's crucial to keep your membranes intact. postulater Dec 2012 #2
A rare chemistry indeed Eddie Haskell Dec 2012 #3
Here at least AldoLeopold Dec 2012 #5
Not necessarily RomneyLies Dec 2012 #6
Good point. DavidDvorkin Dec 2012 #9
So far we've not found one ... Eddie Haskell Dec 2012 #10
We have no clue where life began RomneyLies Dec 2012 #12
It's possible Eddie Haskell Dec 2012 #13
A testable hypothesis exboyfil Dec 2012 #4
I favor Stuart Kauffman's proposal that the catalytic cycles evolved first phantom power Dec 2012 #7
Cool. Or, more accurately, hot. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #8
mind, blown. JaneyVee Dec 2012 #11
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