[tortoise]

It's taken about 50 years to find a barely possible way in which Miller's suggestion about how life arose spontaneously from the protoplasmic soup could possibly have worked.

Has been known for some time that proto-cellular organic structures bootstrap in the metal and carbon rich minerology of hydrothermal systems in the Western US. A great many key structural parts of simple organisms are catalytically formed in these systems, and provide a fair amount of insight into just how much of primitive cellular organisms can be trivially bootstrapped in natural chemical systems. It is worth noting that these systems are quite rare on the surface of the earth; the handful of ones in the mountain west of the US which show this activity are among the few currently known on the planet. It takes very specific minerologies and geologies that are stable for tens of millions of years to create these types of bootstrap factories in nature. Crude oil is also rapidly manufactured in some of these systems.

[adam_az]

" It takes very specific minerologies and geologies that are stable for tens of millions of years to create these types of bootstrap factories in nature. Crude oil is also rapidly manufactured in some of these systems."

AND if I recall correctly, there's lots of evidence that hydrothermal vents were far more common in past eras than they are now.

[GladesGuru]

Any sources on the crude creation hypotheses? Thanks.

[GladesGuru]

Any sources on the crude creation hypotheses? Thanks.