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Re:'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scient... by intrasight on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:30AM (#43422207)
This article is garbage from the get-go.

"long-established view that life was made possible ..."

My understanding is that the consensus view is now that life began either in the deep sea or was transported here from another planet.

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Re:'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scient... by pfdietz on Thursday March 20, 2025 @09:47AM (#43423353)
My understanding is that tenuous hypotheses are a poor basis for a supposed "consensus".

What we have with origin of life is a bunch of "maybe it worked this way" ideas, with no good way to test them.

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Re:'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scient... by intrasight on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:28AM (#43445826)
The scientific method is based around theories and building consensus. Not sure why you or anyone else would refer to it as "tenuous" unless you haven't been following the research.
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Re:'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scient... by pfdietz on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:56PM (#43448557)
They're tenuous because there's very little reason for a skeptical person to believe any of it. It's conjecture piled on conjecture with a lot of handwaving. The fundamental problem of Origin of Life is unsolved.
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