Little by little

[Owlix]

Every day we get one step closer, either by discovering more or by disproving what we thought once true.

In simulated ancient seawater, clay forms a hydrogel -- a mass of microscopic spaces capable of soaking up liquids like a sponge. Over billions of years, chemicals confined in those spaces could have carried out the complex reactions that formed proteins, DNA and eventually all the machinery that makes a living cell work. Clay hydrogels could have confined and protected those chemical processes until the membrane that surrounds living cells developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...132027.htm

[Cato]

One step closer to what ?

[Captain Colostomy]

One step closer to what ?

Never stepping foot in the ocean again. Yech! I'm disgusted just knowing fish fuck in it.

[Owlix]

One step closer to knowing that which we didn't know yesterday.

[Minimalist]

One step closer to what ?

To putting fucking "god" out of business.

[Owlix]

And what he said.

[Doubting Thomas]

Hang on... as soon as the fundies find out that life might have formed in clay hydrogels, they'll start claiming that the part of Genesis where God created Adam from a pile of dirt was literally true.

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

Don't be daft. It's all literally true

[Mister Agenda]

One step closer to what ?

Explaining abiogenesis.

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Hang on... as soon as the fundies find out that life might have formed in clay hydrogels, they'll start claiming that the part of Genesis where God created Adam from a pile of dirt was literally true.

That would be a tremendous improvement over what they're saying now, but I doubt it. After all, the dust also makes a great metaphor for microbes, and humans coming from them; and they won't touch that with a ten-foot pole.

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah, you're right. They'll probably just turn this into a new straw man argument. "Those scientists are now saying that humans came from dirt! How can anyone believe such a stupid thing?" *ahem* Genesis 2:7