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Did Life Originate Underwater?
TuringTest writes "Sciencedaily reports a highly controversial new theory about the origins of life from Professor William Martin of the University of Dusseldorf and Dr Michael Russell of the Scottish Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow. The theory briefly states that inorganic cells where first, then living systems evolved inside these incubators which allowed an enough rich micro-environment. The small compartments would have been formed in iron sulphide rocks near hot, hydrothermal vents on the sea floor, not in the atmosphere. Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem."
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"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem.
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No, it reduces the Q to "what was first : the fish or the egg ?"
It does offcourse open endless possibilities
Why did the fish cross the road ??????
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
...new IIS security hole.
I love the Dorf series and was looking forward to more crazy shenanigans - "Dorf on Autoracing" was my favorite. "Dorf on Evolution" doesn't seem as exciting.
We would likely self-replicate a lot easier if we were crowded together in a small dark room, isn't it?
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Of couse, because what we all know happened is there was this big explosion in this place called "space", and for no reason this Earth came about, and it was the perfect place for a bunch of water to swirl around, and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Carbon and some other stuff just randomly mixed together in a life form, for no apparant reason and with the greatest of luck, there was this living single-celled creature. Then the one-celled creature became a two-celled creature, again, for no apparant reason, and then three cells, and four, and then, finally, billions. And then all these genetic defects turned out to be really good things for all these creatures... And so humans "evolved" out of nothing and for no reason... but here we are. HO HUM!
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Hm. Freudian slip, I'd say. Presumably we're talking about hydrophilic compounds--ones that 'like' to intermingle with water, and not...um, something else in water...
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Amazing that all those accidents of nature worked out just perfectly, isn't it? I think that is even more unbelievable than Creation.
A while back I heard a joke about how God and a bunch of Evolutionists were discussing the origins of life. The Evolutionists said they could show how to create life. God said to go ahead and show Him. They said "let's take some dirt and water and ..."
God interrupted and said "Wait a minute. That is My dirt and water. Go create your own."
I offer my son as proof that life originates underwater... undoubtedly due to that bit of sex in the hot tub with the wife-to-be one cold August night.
Seems to happen all the time on Star Trek. Unless, of course, nose ridges are the result of weird alien DNA.
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
it's the first time a story of mine got its way to the front page!
Hey, if you're really lucky, your story will get on the front page again in about 3 days!
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
>Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem.
a chicken & an egg are lying naked in bed.
the chicken turns to the egg & says "well i guess we answered that question"
I cant belive we're still not over this "what came first, chicken or the egg" problem.. i mean its OBVIOUS that the EGG came first.... THere has to be a CHICKEN to be given the name CHICKEN or it would just be called EGG.... the first to be called a CHICKEN was already in the egg.. but since thers always evolution EVERY generation of something the .. thing.. that laid the egg that contained the first chicken.. was NOT a chicken.. due to evolution inside the egg that resulted in the first chicken.. therefore.. "What laid the first egg that contained the first chicken... was NOT a chicken.... but when the first chicken was given the name CHICKEN.. the egg automatically becomes wat came first because even tho it had not yet gotten the name CHICKEN.. it was still in the egg.. therefore.. the EGG CAME FIRST"!!!
Its easy.. EGG FIRST..EGG FIRST..EGG FIRST.. its now proven!
Life starts in water-based things...
Well, it did start in my 3 week old 2 inch standing coffee cup.
***digs out science kit***
What ever happened to life starting in a garden?
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Hm, and I thought the headline read 'Did life originate in underwear'. I was about to say - I wouldn't rule out the possibility in some of the hockey arena locker rooms I've been in...