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Scientists Strengthen Case for Life on Earth More Than 3.8 Billion Years Ago
UCLA News ^
| 20 July 2006
| Staff (press release)
Posted on 07/21/2006 8:08:04 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Everybody be nice.
To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:09:27 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The Enlightenment gave us individual rights, free enterprise, and the theory of evolution.)
To: PatrickHenry
Helen Thomas is that old?
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:10:36 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: PatrickHenry
Could have found that out from Robert Byrd's baby pictures.
To: PatrickHenry
Everybody be nice.
Two words.
Good and luck. ;-)
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:11:59 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......The Ca GOP: Where conservatives votes count but their opinions don't.)
To: PatrickHenry
It has to be tough to find the oldest evidence. Consider how few fossils of land creatures are found; extraordinary circumstances such as immediate burial by mud or cold water might allow an animal skeleton to be preserved, but almost all the time the carcass is devoured so there is nothing left at all. Nature eats the evidence of its origins.
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:13:38 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: PatrickHenry
Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:13:46 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: PatrickHenry
While the journal is being published in late July, it will carry a date of May 2006. For crying out loud..these guys are trying to figure out when life began billions of years ago..and yet they can't even get printing dates correct??????..
To: BerniesFriend
The SEC ought to investigate this backdating scandal too!
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:17:10 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero » with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: Mr. Brightside
To: PatrickHenry
The scientists see light carbon inclusions in a phosphate mineral called apatite, which is also the material of which bones and teeth are made.My teeth are made of "apatite?" No wonder I'm always hungry!
:P
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:22:15 AM PDT
by
forsnax5
(The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.)
To: RightWhale
"Nature eats the evidence of its origins."
In this case, like the cheshire cat's smile, nature ate but left its apatite behind. ;)
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:23:56 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: edcoil
Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms On these threads everybody provides his own definition but doesn't usually make it public.
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:25:00 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: PatrickHenry
An unanswered question is how life originally could have arisen from lifeless molecules and evolved into the already sophisticated isotope fractioning life forms recorded in the Akilia rocks. I would think that the shorter the time frame between Earth's formation and the emergence of life, the stronger the case for panspermia.
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:26:30 AM PDT
by
dead
To: edcoil
"Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms"
Is this an abortion related question?
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:29:22 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: RightWhale
Amazing how nature works that way.
Can't wait for the argument,
"Excuse me, teacher, but were you there?"
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:29:35 AM PDT
by
phantomworker
("I wouldn't hurt you for the world, but you are standing where I am about to shoot." ~ Quaker quote)
To: dead
I would think that the shorter the time frame between Earth's formation and the emergence of life, the stronger the case for panspermia.I would think that the shorter the time frame between now and lunch, the stronger the case for PanPizza.
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:29:39 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
Always nice ===> Placemarker <===
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:29:46 AM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: PatrickHenry
wow more articles that disprove alot of what is said in the bible.... i think its time to write another new testament in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..
To: Lazamataz
The case for panpizza is as irrefutable as the laws of gravity.
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posted on
07/21/2006 8:31:58 AM PDT
by
dead
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