(June 26, 2016 at 3:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote:Yes, you did say "nearly," didn't you. Touché.(June 26, 2016 at 3:00 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I doubt everything got wiped out.Doubt? We're discussing the kt boundary, and kt exinction event, are we not? You might have missed the word -nearly-, above.
Quote: some things had to survive, or we would not be here. New life could not have developed on earth after the oxygenation event, so if everything got wiped out, that would be it.Indeed, it would be....but...uh......
Quote:Hey, couldn't scientists easily recreate the beginning of life on earth in a controlled environment?IDK, if they could, I don't think that it could really be described as being easy. The urey miller experiment, for example, didn't create life - and what we -do- know of the early conditions has told us that some of the parameters of that experiment were woefully wrong. It;s a popular experiment to point to not because it explains the origins of life, but because it answers any objections as to the impossibility of a natural origin.
Quote:Don't we know all the necessary conditions?No.
Vorlon just turned me on to Miller-Urey. I'd have to read beyond what Wikipedia has to say about it to discuss what their experiment did and did not do.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
