Scientists Strengthen Case for Life on Earth More Than 3.8 Billion Years Ago

UCLA News ^ | 20 July 2006 | Staff (press release)

[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

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[RexBeach]

Helen Thomas is that old?

[Mr. Brightside]

Could have found that out from Robert Byrd's baby pictures.

[NormsRevenge]

Everybody be nice.

Two words.

Good and luck. ;-)

[RightWhale]

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.

[edcoil]

Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms

[BerniesFriend]

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??????..

[ßuddaßudd]

The SEC ought to investigate this backdating scandal too!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!!!

[forsnax5]

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

[gcruse]

"Nature eats the evidence of its origins."

In this case, like the cheshire cat's smile, nature ate but left its apatite behind. ;)

[RightWhale]

Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms

On these threads everybody provides his own definition but doesn't usually make it public.

[dead]

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.

[gcruse]

"Does "life" mean human life or single cell organisms"

Is this an abortion related question?

[phantomworker]

Amazing how nature works that way.

Can't wait for the argument,

"Excuse me, teacher, but were you there?"

[Lazamataz]

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.

[Coyoteman]

Always nice ===> Placemarker <===

[Element187]

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..

[dead]

The case for panpizza is as irrefutable as the laws of gravity.