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To: PatrickHenry
I'm interested that the metaphor was chosen to represent the alleged chemical composition of these early oceans.
As anyone who had cooked or attempted to cook knows, a soup especially a good one - is not simply a pot into which a random collection of ingredients are tossed, water added, and the heat turn on.
A good soup requires careful planning and cooking.
If this "soup" of prehistoric oceans was a rich as the authors allege, the right mixture of ingredients must have come from somewhere. If the "soup" came from something, what? And how did these ingredients come to be in the exactly correct mixture? Was the temperature and resulting chemical reactions self-regulating?
If the "soup" came from itself, explain the process of self-selection?
To: PatrickHenry
I always imagined it not as primordial soup, but as more of a primordial open-faced sandwich.
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