Wacky scientists finds evidence linking origins of life to the ocean...

[cynatnite]

Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean.

The ancient black smoker chimneys, which scientists unearthed in a Chinese mine, are 1 billion years older than similar fossils previously identified and are nearly identical to the archaea- and bacteria-harboring structures found today on sea beds.

"These are remnants of the oldest living types of life forms on the planet," said Timothy Kusky, a geologist at Saint Louis University and co-author of a new study that describes the fossils.

Kusky said that the fossils offer "tantalizing suggestions" that life developed near deep-sea hydrothermal vents and not in shallow seas, as other evidence hints.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070806/sc_livescience/newfossilssupportdeepseaoriginoflife

Oh, those zany scientists and their evidence. :smoke:

[rpannier]

1. They gotta stop their silly research...

They only need Gawwwwwdddd and Jebus.

[Solly Mack]

2. The end is near! The end is near! I blame Harry Potter!

Well, now we know what phase 2 of the creation museum will claim

"Man did not come from fish"

LMAO

[rpannier]

3. I think I need glasses

I thought you wrote

"Man did not come from Irish."

I was confused for a minute.

[Solly Mack]

You can borrow mine :)

[CoffeeCat]

4. Something...

...smells fishy about these findings.

These must be God-hating, evil scientists with radical, liberal agendas.

What "porpoise" does this research serve...to destroy civilization and degrade Jesus?

Damn scientists. Get a job morays!

[Solly Mack]

5. Whale, I never...

[rpannier]

7. I've talked to people

and they say you have.

[Solly Mack]

8. The eels!

[rpannier]

10. That's right...The Eels

and the Manta Rays they said you told the sea otters.

You otter know better than to tell them...

[Solly Mack]

11. Damn otters

Oh sure..they look cute....but they will shell you out in a minute

[rpannier]

12. Yep, they shelled you out

hook, line and sinker.

But take heart you were not the only person they sole-d out.

[Solly Mack]

13. Next time I'll clam up

[rpannier]

15. You better be on your guard

Cause if the sharks desert you, you'll be left flounder-ing around with no help carp-ing about how you were screwed by the otters, the eels and the manta rays.
Then it's off to an asylum and it's kind of rough-y there.

[Solly Mack]

17. Oh, the Lutra felina!

[rpannier]

6. Porpoise and Morays

You know they've tombstoned people for less...

on note::rofl: :hide: :applause: :woohoo: :yourock: :silly: :bounce: :toast: ;-)

[C_U_L8R]

9. Jesus was a fish ???

Ohhhhh now I understand those car emblems

[UTUSN]

14. So, uh... POSEIDON did it? n/t

[ima_sinnic]

16. so Sponge Bob is our archetype? (nt)

[CoffeeCat]

18. It all makes sense now...

Patrick Star = Bush
Plankton = Dick Cheney
Karen, computer wife = Lynne Cheney
Squidward = Don Rumsfeld
Mr. Crabs = Richard Perle
Mrs. Puff (driving instructor)--Laura Bush
Sandy the Squirrel = Harriet Myers

Suddenly, everything is oh-so clear.