The use of the term fossil means that the original had been mineralized or turned into rock, the traces of Carbon and Nitrogen are remnants left over from when the fossil was formed, just like all rocks, say for example granite. Are you saying that granite was once alive since it contains traces of Carbon and Nitrogen?
“Organic chemistry, carbon and nitrogen isotopes, and carbon/nitrogen ratios are consistent with a fungal origin.”
Not algae, not random mixtures of various chemicals, not granite, not the minerals that came later, but FUNGAL ORIGIN.
IF THE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FOUND WAS OTHERWISE IT WOULD NOT BE “CONSISTENT WITH A FUNGAL ORIGIN”.
“Scientists were investigating organic chemicals trapped in an Italian sedimentary rock formation when they found evidence that an extinct fungus feasted on dead wood during a time when the world’s forests had been catastrophically eradicated.”
You made this above quote in your post #22 and attempted to show it was erroneous but clearly it was quite correct, the problem being you spoke without reading the references listed, even the easy ones.
So are you “designious”, misleading and dancing around with the granite alive silliness?
Now come on, Ira, your personal dislike of Thomas is making you nit pick when you honestly know you wouldn't do so were that not the case, don't you?
And you're seeing nits that don't exist. That goes way beyond disagreement. that's letting your feeling cloud your comments.
With that I say good night and Cheers!