To: The Great Yazoo
> See Guns, Germs and Steel regarding how microbes can lie dormant until the proper host arrives (or re-arrives).
Lie dormant for 10,000 years? Seems rather unlikely.
62 posted on
04/18/2005 8:47:18 AM PDT by
orionblamblam
("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
To: orionblamblam
Lie dormant for 10,000 years? Seems rather unlikely.
Let's see. Tens of millions of quite large dead bodies can lie frozen and unconsumed by carrion-eaters for 10,000 years, but a microbe cannot lie dormant for that same period. "Seems rather unlikely."
71 posted on
04/18/2005 8:58:38 AM PDT by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: orionblamblam
Some microbes have been frozen for 250 MILLION years and revived fairly easily.
108 posted on
04/18/2005 10:23:06 AM PDT by
Gava
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