(May 9, 2019 at 6:40 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Second data point as in a second independent abiogenesis as you conceive it is not the only way to constrain deductions based on current understanding of possible chemical process of abiogenesis. We actually do have a an alternative data point. That is how long did it take for abiogenesis to occur in the one instance where it is known to have occurred, after conditions can reasonably be said to have allowed it.
The answer is very quickly. That is a strong data point, as strong as discovering several independent occurrence of abiogenesis on other planets, for the contention that abiogenesis is a easy process to facilitate on a time scale of hundred million years in geological and chemical conditions prevalent on early earth.
The early start of life on earth is addressed at 9:35 in the video.
