Deep in the oceans, where it's dark and hot, primitive life teems

SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE ^ | 21 March 2005 | DAVID PERLMAN

[PatrickHenry]

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[mewzilla]

Hey, who's he callin' primitive?!

[Alamo-Girl]

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[Romulus]

fascinated bump.

[roaddog727]

Good read.

Seems that we know less about our ocean depths than we do the moon.

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[massgopguy]

Use a Jacques Cousteau voice when reading it.

[b_sharp]

Thanks for the ping.

This is further proof that evolution could not be responsible for abiogenesis. If the previously held start date left too little time for complex cells to evolve then this is even more too little time. Probability unequivocally states that anything with a really small probability can not possibly happen. So there.

[Lekker 1]

Gawd...sumpin' about the title of this post I find very erotic and intriguing. That does it! I'm gonna go get a life!

[FastCoyote]

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[mewzilla]

But I'm AquaVelva Man!

LOL. I'm old enough to remember that, too :)

[jb6]

Christianity and Evolution are not at odds. Why the Orthodox, Catholic and Lutherin churches accept physical evolution.

[talleyman]

Hey, I thought we were the most primitive of all living things - I'm calling the NYT!

[paul51]

Very cool information

[animoveritas]

Thanks for the post.

We're rich in speculation...we think those processes have been going on forever...

Any word when they will move from giddy unbounded speculation to application of the scientific method?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Heat-loving microbes there, called hyperthermophiles, can resist temperatures as high as 750 degrees Fahrenheit...

...were sucking up one patch of what looked like mud from the hot rock...

I guess it's good that these things don't get mad easily.

[AFPhys]

This superdeep ocean life thriving on thermal processes is one of the most fascinating scientific discoveries of the past ten years. Thanks for posting this article.