Quote: should we assume that life always comes from life?
Does it matter?
You know once a month we get some theist showing up with some variant of the 'first-cause' argument. "Everything has a cause," they bleat. Except their fucking god who somehow exists above and beyond the rule they just stated.
http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topi...early.html
Quote:Although the environment at that time (including the constant bombardment by asteroids and prodigious volcanic activity) would have been highly hazardous to life, the necessary ingredients were all present in some form or another: liquid water, chemical building blocks (usually taken to be the six elements: oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus) and some kind of energy source.
