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Oldest evidence of life found in 3.95-billion-year-old rocks
Fox ^ | 9/29/17 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 09/29/2017 8:35:34 AM PDT by workerbee

The oldest evidence of life on Earth ever discovered may lie within rocks that are 3.95 billion years old, a new study finds.

The new finding represents the earliest sign of life yet on Earth by 200 million years or more, the researchers said.

Evidence of life early in Earth's history remains sparse because few well-preserved rocks have survived from the Eoarchean era, which spanned from about 4 billion to 3.6 billion years ago. During that time, Earth's primitive atmosphere and oceans — as well as the oldest signs of life — first emerged.

Until now, the earliest hints of life in the 4.5-billion-year history of Earth were inside a 3.7-billion-year-old rock from Greenland revealed in 2016. Prior work, from 1996, also claimed to have found signs of life in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from Greenland's Akilia Island, although those findings remain hotly debated.

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To: Moonman62
Christian philosophers...who believe that evolution supports theism.

It's wonderful that adopting the "correct" view of creation is not in any way a requirement of salvation--although, sadly, there are some who appear to think so.

21 posted on 09/29/2017 2:31:17 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Moonman62

Not out of touch just old enough to remember.


22 posted on 09/29/2017 4:45:32 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: caligatrux
Whole lot of “may be”s and “could be”s in that article.

Sadly; that is the state of 'science' these days.

23 posted on 10/11/2017 5:07:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dangerdoc
One of the foundations of the abiogenesis of life is that it had billions of years to occur.

And THIS is the other one...


24 posted on 10/11/2017 5:09:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Honey; I'm feelin' frisky tonight!

Whatcha say you and I get it on?


Why don't you just split!?


25 posted on 10/11/2017 5:13:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: workerbee; SunkenCiv
Rocks. Gotta love 'em.


26 posted on 10/11/2017 5:13:37 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Daffynition; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Daffynition. For those about to rock, we salute you. Unemployed? In Greenland?!?

27 posted on 10/11/2017 11:15:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: dangerdoc

Anyone who uses the 6,000 year figure for anything missed, “Concern yourself NOT with ENDLESS geneologies” endless as in NEVER ENDING......as in always existed. Endless


28 posted on 10/12/2017 4:07:26 AM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks via murdered ex-UK Amb, murdered he was, cover up it is)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

One could argue that in Genesis, every ‘day’ ends with ‘and the evening and the morning were the nth day’ closing out that ‘day’.

Every day save one.

That’s the seventh day, the day The Creator rested.

That day isn’t over, He is still on vacation, which explains a lot about the current condition of humanity and the planet...


29 posted on 10/12/2017 6:20:29 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: Elsie
caligatrux ~ Whole lot of “may be”s and “could be”s in that article.

Elsie ~ Sadly; that is the state of 'science' these days.

Unless it's anthropogenic global warming, no uncertainty there!

30 posted on 10/12/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve been unemployed in Boston, unemployed in Ft Lauderdale, and unemployed in Plymouth County.

By far, Ft. Lauderdale is the best place to be unemployed, as one can always go to the Beach.

I have never been unemployed in Greenland...and hope NEVER to be!

Now I am “retired” which is not quite the same as being unemployed. I live in a town named for the ubiquitous ROCKS that make farming impossible, and explains why the Pilgrims STARVED!


31 posted on 10/12/2017 7:52:27 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: null and void
One could argue...

Exactly as I did.

He is still on vacation...

Only from creating:
"...because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." " John 5:17

32 posted on 10/12/2017 8:35:56 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Ah! Thank you!!!


33 posted on 10/12/2017 10:57:06 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: null and void
It's fun to note that God is currently only, as you put it, vacationing from creating. He designed this present creation to enable His permanent defeat and further prevention of all evil, which is still a work in-progress.

Once that project is completed, Revelation 21 & 22 record his further beginning creative efforts, an "eighth day" or second week of creating, perhaps among many. Note that the new heaven and earth have different laws of physics. For example:

* no gravity: the New Jerusalem is a 1,500-mile cube, but in gravity those corners would collapse and it would become spherical, as with every large body we see in this universe.

* no electromagnetism: no illumination from light sources; instead, God illumines everything personally.

34 posted on 10/12/2017 11:14:16 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

There goes my career as an engineer.

You want fries with that?


35 posted on 10/12/2017 11:35:25 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: left that other site

;’D

inconthievable!


36 posted on 10/12/2017 12:54:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: null and void

He is preparing you for an interesting and exciting heavenly career. I’m hoping to become heaven’s baseball bat maker.


37 posted on 10/12/2017 1:48:40 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
It's fun to note that God is currently only, as you put it, vacationing from creating.

I go to prepare a place for you.

38 posted on 10/12/2017 6:03:34 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
You're very perceptive and have rounded out our discussion--although now He is vacationing from creating on earth, He's "always at his work," which includes creating our future homes.
39 posted on 10/13/2017 8:22:29 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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