Posted on 10/19/2015 3:04:57 PM PDT by JimSEA
UCLA geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago -- 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested. The discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago.
The graphite is older than the zircon containing it, the researchers said. They know the zircon is 4.1 billion years old, based on its ratio of uranium to lead; they don't know how much older the graphite is.The carbon contained in the zircon has a characteristic signature -- a specific ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 -- that indicates the presence of photosynthetic life.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
14.1 THOUSAND years ago ?
This moves the date a little bit, but it remains true: Photosynthesis those billions of years ago REMOVED trillions of tons of CO2 from the air, released the oxygen we breathe now ... and killed all of the life that relied on the CO2 but whose life was ended by O2.
I’ve got the original fossils of those clusters at home
The Decreasing Speed of Light - Evidence by Barry Setterfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdTlOVTDbNU
OK, good, should now be easy enough to create life in a jar. (note, I am a god skeptic, but that means I am open to a lot of ideas, but will question all of them. I have yet to see a single form of life created in a jar from just raw materials. Nor have I seen a single incidence of one species morphing into another in the fossil record).
6020 years ago according to ancient alien theorists...
OK. Now, if only INTELLIGENT life would emerge!
Oldplayer
Would you count a virus as life?
And it took this long for higher forms of life like humans to come into existence. And in a very short period of time, it could all end.
Makes you wonder how special and unique we truly are... all of the right conditions had to happen, millions of conditions, maybe billions of conditions with any one condition leading in the wrong direction would mean that we never came into existence. What are the probabilities? Id suggest that they are astronomical.
Interesting chicken and egg question.
That is a good question, actually...though I do not remember the source off the top of my head, but there is somewhere on the net a list of conditions that define life. I think I remember a virus positively correlates with some but not all of the definitions.
Though, in the context of your question, you are implying that somebody has created a virus (US government no doubt, HIV perhaps?)
“Makes you wonder how special and unique we truly are... all of the right conditions had to happen, millions of conditions, maybe billions of conditions with any one condition leading in the wrong direction would mean that we never came into existence. “
In order for you to continue breathing, billions of independent processes have to work exactly right, and these processes happen between organisms constantly every milisecond of every day that may or may not even share your DNA. Just try to explain how combinations of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other atoms can come together and not only create consciousness but also to think.
A wiki list of transitional fossils and more are being found every year.
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.
Get outa here with that BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, before I call the cops!!!
NOW read my reply
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A hundred million here
A hundred million there
It adds up.
Just remember, there are some 10^57 atoms (higher-weight nuclei) in just our solar system alone. And every one of them had to be created, transformed inside stars, and re-ejected multiple times in just the right sequence to get re-absorbed in the next star-supernova. Then travel drifting through space just in time to get trapped into out gravitation fields to become planets, continents, plants and rocks. ....
But the miracle of creation is doubted by many.
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