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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Re:Creation of Life

[cje]

Okay, so my first assumption was correct and my second assumption was wrong. I would then again ask that you not blame your almost unbelievably skewed views of modern scientific theories on the theories themselves. Just because Jerry Falwell or Fred Phelps says "the Big Bang says there was a bunch of empty space, and then there's this BOOM, and then there's a bunch of rocks and dirt floating around, and right soon you've got a bunch of monkeys and then they got together and formed the ACLU" doesn't make it an accurate depiction of what the theory actually says.

See, I can be sarcastic too. :-)