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Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks by postmodest on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:37AM (#36862008)
You keep saying that last part and it's meaningless.

The Sun (and sometimes the earth itself) provides energy to the system, and we're talking about a billion years to go from "churning precursors in a hot soup" to "replicating molecular machines".

I mean, what's your alternative theory? The Abrahamic God?

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Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks by fastaguy88 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:50AM (#36863114)
Not really a billion years though. Perhaps several hundred million between when there was liquid water on earth and evidence of bacterial life. A surprisingly short time. We have spend almost 10x as long evolving to modern organisms than it took to get started.
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Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks by postmodest on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:41PM (#36867311)
True... I was trying to be generous. (...or conservative; whichever way you slice it.)

It is fascinating how early "goop to replicators" happened in our history. It really highlights how common life must be where there's water.

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