[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 380 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[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??????..

[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

[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.

[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..

[edsheppa]

Isn't it possible that the layer of rock was inhabited later, possibly much later, than its original formation and that this later habitation produced the carbon isotope differential?

[onedoug]

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet

[Robert A Cook PE]

At this age, doesn't it begin to overlap the age of the earth-moon formation?

[Nathan Zachary]

"Craig E. Manning, lead author of the new study and a professor of geology and geochemistry in the UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, painstakingly mapped an area on Akilia Island in West Greenland where ancient rocks were discovered that may preserve carbon-isotope evidence for life at the time of their formation.

What stupidity. But all billion year old theory is. Carbon dating rocks is just another desperate step in the failed evolution theory. It's like finding an arrow head, claiming it's a million years old, but made from a stone that's less than a thousand. Or, finding an arrowhead I carved 20 years ago, and threw away, which was then re- found, taken to a geoligist, who then claims it's 5,000 years old, carved by an ancient indian tribe who used to live in the area. An interesting aside to this story, is that it claims greenland was much greener than it is now, which we do know is true because of the fox, rabbits wolfs elephants, rino's that are found in the artic circle on several continents, suddenly buried and preserved in ice of recent age, proving sudden global catastrophic event. Fountains of the Great Deep Lot's of info about rocks here.

[LibWhacker]

It always amazes me that life started so soon after the formation of the earth, but then took billions of years to evolve out of the single-cell stage. To me that suggests that life itself isn't the big miracle, but multi-cellular life is. If things hadn't been just so 700 or 800 million years ago, earth might still be nothing more than a big dirty ball of iron, water and germs.

[truth_seeker]

It means God had more time to make oil.

[b_sharp]

Placemarker

[cookcounty]

3.8 billion? ....reaching for eternity, because then, anything becomes possible.

[Bryan24]

I heard they found a tag on a rock that said,

"Rock for Sale. 3 day old. Free DVD of Big Bang if 10 rock bought. Guarantee for 4,000,000,000 year."