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World's Oldest Fossils Found In Greenland (washingtonpost.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Washington Post: Scientists probing a newly exposed, formerly snow-covered outcropping in Greenland claim they have discovered the oldest fossils ever seen, the remnants of microbial mats that lived 3.7 billion years ago. It's a stunning announcement in a scientific field that is always contentious. But if confirmed, this would push the established fossil record more than 200 million years deeper into the Earth's early history, and provide support for the view that life appeared very soon after the Earth formed and may be commonplace throughout the universe. A team of Australian geologists announced their discovery in a paper titled "Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures," published Wednesday in Nature. The report adds: "Subsequent laboratory analysis established that the formation is 3.7 billion years old, and turned up additional chemical signatures consistent with a biological origin for the conical structures, Allen Nutman, a University of Wollongong geologist, said. These scientists determined the age of the rocks through radiometric dating, measuring the abundance of elements created by the steady decay of uranium."
The Earth is only 6000 years old, scienticians.
With more evidence that planets with life will form by the trillions, it's only math to theorize that we recycle the universe by observing the higgs particle, otherwise the odds of us being on this planet rather than the trillions to come are astronomically against us. Only by destoying the possibility of these trillions of planets forming can we rationalize the odds of us being here now.
World's Oldest Fossils Found In Greenland
...where they were observed using VAX 8600's.
Damn, that glacier is melting quick! We didn't even have to dig for it! All we had to do was burn a crap ton of carbon to do the excavating for us!
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...Cowboy Neal.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
The conical structures are fossils of the Great Race of Yith.
I do believe this a serious article.
That said, the commentary is a little speculative. With a sample size of one, the conclusions we can draw about life across the universe are very limited.
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. . . .are found in the United States Senate. . . .
And so it begins.
Pushing back the evidence of life implies one of the following is true.
1) Life (abiogenesis) is easy to get started and the Universe is full of life.
2) It was an extremely rare event for life to start on Earth.
3) Life started somewhere else and ended up on Earth.
4) Life had outside help in getting started.
I personally believe that life is extremely hard to get going and with the evidence of life showing up even earlier, it makes it more likely that there was some outside help, i.e. a supernatural event.
Evolution implies death before sin. If there was death before sin, then “original sin” and Jesus’ atonment for that sin are meaningless. They’re not going to accept something that breaks their religion, because they have a deathly (no pun intended) fear of not having a life after death. They are also wrapped up in fear over some mythical “moral decline” that they believe is caused by moral relativism that they seem to think evolution implies.
What’s interesting is to uncover the inconsistences in their beliefs. They claim to read the Bible literally or “at face value.” But when it comes to original sin, the Bible is only clear about HUMAN SPIRITUAL death as a result of original sin. They extend this to physical death of all animals. But when pressed, they cannot identify specific Bible verses that speak to this. Rather, they fall back on an assumption they make about the meaning of “very good” which they ASSUME (a tendency they say is a problem with evolutionists) means there could have been no animal death before human sin. They presume too much to know the mind of God and what God may have thought was “very good” beyond what their Bible claims while trying to convince us that the primary source of truth should be the Bible.
They go on to create a subculture where evidence is something we can take or leave as we like as it fits or doesn’t fit our preconceptions. Then they turn around and call evolution a preconception. It was Christians who came up with the idea!
They presume too much to know the mind of God...
No. They recognize the direct word of God in Christ's teachings against evolution, not wasting all his time just telling us to love one another.
What? Oh, nevermind.