UC Riverside Researchers Identify Clay as Major Contributor to Oxygen that Enabled Early Animal Life

University of California, Riverside ^ | February 2, 2006 | Iqbal Pittalwala

[PatrickHenry]

We haven't had a thread on this issue for quite some time.

[Capn TrVth]

Six-Fingered Clay, busy, busy, busy!!!

[PatrickHenry]

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[PatrickHenry]

Here's the link to the original article. I don't know how it got omitted:
Researchers Identify Clay as Major Contributor to Oxygen that Enabled Early Animal Life.

[Capriole]

Can't believe that nobody else posted this:

"I am also formed out of clay. . ."
--Job 33:6

"And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground. . ."
--Genesis 2:7

[bvw]

“NASA is interested in what conditions to look for on other planets that might lead to the arrival of life,” Kennedy said.

Good. That "might" means it is just a guess, just a theory. And that's the mentally sane way to express legitimate scientific ideas that are not facts.

[oh8eleven]

"Hundred Pounds Of Clay" - Gene McDaniels

He took a hundred pounds of clay
And they He said "hey, listen"
"I'm gonna fix this-a world today"
"Because I know what's missin' "
Then he rolled his big sleeves up
And a brand-new world began
He created a woman and-a lots of lovin' for a man
Whoa-oh-oh, yes he did

[Vaquero]

Not to be confused with Gene Chandler:

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl

Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl
And you, you are my girl
And no one can hurt you, oh no
Yes, I'm gonna love you
Come on let me hold you darlin'
'Cause I'm the Duke of Earl

[oh8eleven]

Hey, you trying to hijack this thread?

[samtheman]

I guess that was before he changed his named to Ali.

[Robert A Cook PE]

God made animal life possible on Earth, a UC Riverside-led study finds. A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earth’s recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earth’s surface also increased, the researchers report.

No surprises here.

Exactly the sequence written 3000 years ago in Genesis: One sea/one continent. Then plant life. Then oxygen and a suddenly clear atmosphere .... that revealed the sun, stars, and moon. Then animal life: starting with sea creatures and birds (dinosaurs) and (only later) mammals.

[Casekirchen]

"a stretch of time known as the late Precambrian when oxygen suddenly increased in the Earth’s atmosphere."

--- If the enviro-whackos, gaia worshippers and global warming chicken littles where around then, do you think that they would have been whining about "global oxygenation"?

[moonman]

Thanks for the post

When all is said and done, when all knowledge about the beginnings of life is known, my personal view of all this will remain: "I believe that God created us in his own image, regardless of the amount of time it took, and it does not diminish that faith"

To me, there is no 'time line'. No one has ever stated the number of minutes or hours in a 'God-day', therefore, intelligent design and evolution are the same to me. Life cannot start from nothing.

[robertpaulsen]

"Clay made animal life possible on Earth ..."

And Gumby life and and Pokey life and ...

[js1138]

They just don't write stuff like that anymore.

[dmz]

They just don't write stuff like that anymore.
___________

See, there is a God!!

[js1138]

I first heard those songs on one of these. The one in the photo is in the Smithsonian. Mine, alas, disappeared a few years ago.

[RadioAstronomer]

Good stuff my friend. :-)

[HereInTheHeartland]

I thought that it started when a lightening bolt hit some dirty water which produced a piece of DNA or a cell or whatever.
And then of course we ended up with Redwood trees, sharks, eagles, and people.
At least that's what they taught in school. Totally logical.

[Ken H]

They just don't write stuff like that anymore.

Or this:

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!
And I bring you
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn

You fought hard
And you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now's your time burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
Oh no, oh no, oh no
You gonna burn

Fire, to destroy all you've done
Fire, to end all you've become
I'll feel you burn

You've been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now's your time burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind

Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn

You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn, burn Burn, burn, bur