(March 9, 2016 at 6:17 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(March 8, 2016 at 7:24 pm)AJW333 Wrote: When the earth was formed, it would have consisted simply of dirt, rocks and water. What else was there to create life with?
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There was no dirt when the Earth was formed. Do you even know what dirt is?
Allow me to be more precise. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica,
"The oldest known rocks—the faux amphibolites of the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt in Quebec, Canada—however, have an isotopic age of 4.28 billion years."
According to the Smithsonian,
"The oldest evidence for life may be 3.5-billion-year-old sedimentary structures from Australia that resemble stromatolites."
So by the time life emerged there would have been a billion years for dirt to form.