[ClearCase_guy]

They seem to constantly make discoveries showing that all of the really essential stuff was present -- POOF! -- right at the beginning when life was starting out. Then, for the next 600 million years or so, some incidental stuff changed around.

Reminds of a book I once read. I liked the book better.

[LonelyCon]

They seem to constantly make discoveries showing that all of the really essential stuff was present -- POOF! -- right at the beginning when life was starting out.

Except that, you know, the evidence we have so far is that life was starting out about 3.8 billion years ago and this study shows sperm originating 600 million years ago. That's a 3.2 billion-year-gap, so not exactly "POOF!"

[raygunfan]

im with you