NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin of Life

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:32PM from the from-the-water dept.

William Robinson (875390) writes "A new study from researchers at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed the "water world" theory as the answer to our evolution, which describes how electrical energy naturally produced at the sea floor might have given rise to life. While the scientists had already proposed this hypothesis called 'submarine alkaline hydrothermal emergence of life' the new report assembles decades of field, laboratory and theoretical research into a grand, unified picture."

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Nah. It was God. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-17 14:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Life appearing from nothing isn't logical or scientific. Anything appearing from nothing isn't logical or scientific. I used to be all Atheist, before I realized that the only logical thing to be is Agnostic. (Meaning you realize that you cannot know either way, whereas Atheism is the stupid religion of thinking that you "know" that there is no God, which is the opposite of scientific reasoning.)