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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."
How long till someone is shouting, "People is Soylent Green!!! People is Soylent Green!"
"God wasn't the creator" is not a presupposition. It's the default hypothesis until evidence sways us otherwise. NOT believing a theory yet is the default, and in the case for God, the ones who say "yes, god exists" are the ones that have taken on 100% of the burden of proof.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
So *that*'s how you get friends and foes and freaks and whatnot! There's a button that does it. I've been blocking images from Slashdot for so long (trust me, you're saving more money not feeding me the bits than you're losing not feeding me the ads!) it didn't even occur to me there might be *useful* images! I'll have to remember that.
Now, can anyone explain what a "freak" is in the Slashdot context? And I've already come up with all the lame jokes along the lines of "it refers to the readership" thankyouverymuch.
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
As if we all didn't see this coming, evo-creation. But I must say this, have you ever heard of the second law of thermo dynamics? it states that all things go from a state of order to a state of chaos. Also, Evolution is a theory, The second LAW of thermo-dynamics is a LAW. laws win out over theorys.
I just have a few questions for you religious-types.
Where did God come from? He cannot just always "be" if he was, then whats saying that the universe isn't always just "there".
With what did he create the universe? Everybody knows that you can't get something from nothing. Even if there is a God, there is no way he/she could just make matter, it's as absurd as me stomping on the ground and saying that I just destroyed matter.
I know that neither creationism nor evolutionism can exaplian the basic questions that i have just asked, I was simply trying to inform religious-types that God does not have all the answers, nor does he exist.
I have other questions such as "Why is America clearly a Christian country despite its constition?"
basically, i look at the belief of God as just a guide to how people should live their lives, and the claim that he/she created us all just so you will follow the commandments.
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