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Related: About this forumNew Science Appears to Confirm a Theory That Could Reveal the Origin of All Life
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New science from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may finally have an answer to a question billions of years old: Where did life come from?
The study, led by Laura M. Barge and published in German science journal Angewandte Chemie, demonstrates how vents on the ocean floor can generate enough electricity to power a small lightbulb. It was a eureka moment, one that seems to support a theory first formed in 1989: that these ocean floor vents were the source of an electric zap that may have shocked the first life on Earth into existence, like a miniature version of Frankenstein's monster.
The research seems to run contrary to the religious theory of intelligent design. Life may have begun with a spark but if so, it wasn't divine. It was a tiny but constant jolt of electricity on the ocean floor, the result of organic chemistry.
http://mic.com/articles/124083/where-did-life-come-from-new-science-confirms-theory
The study, led by Laura M. Barge and published in German science journal Angewandte Chemie, demonstrates how vents on the ocean floor can generate enough electricity to power a small lightbulb. It was a eureka moment, one that seems to support a theory first formed in 1989: that these ocean floor vents were the source of an electric zap that may have shocked the first life on Earth into existence, like a miniature version of Frankenstein's monster.
The research seems to run contrary to the religious theory of intelligent design. Life may have begun with a spark but if so, it wasn't divine. It was a tiny but constant jolt of electricity on the ocean floor, the result of organic chemistry.
http://mic.com/articles/124083/where-did-life-come-from-new-science-confirms-theory
Very, very cool.
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New Science Appears to Confirm a Theory That Could Reveal the Origin of All Life (Original Post)
cleanhippie
Aug 2015
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Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)1. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen 1:2
Now it makes sense.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)2. in what little diving i've done (in FL)
i can say that there's a palpable electric feeling around springs and underwater caves. it's one of the best feelings ever. i can totally see how fountain of youth stories got started.
nothing like the vents, i'm sure, but i think there's electricity coursing in water that's near rock formations under pressure, generally.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)3. The spark came from cats that were being rubbed backwards