Over the time frame from the late Hadean to the present, this becomes sufficient to explain both the diversity within and similarities between the forms of life observed on earth, including both living forms directly observed in the present, and extinct form indirectly observed from the fossil record.
Really? How much time are we talking about?
I hope you don’t think I’m just responding off the top of my head, because I find this subject very interesting and I like to hear the opinions of others. I have two questions for ou:
1. How does deep time address diversity?
2) Seems like deep time would dictate that everything evolves along the same time line. But in our world, every component is functional. Why aren’t there substances or organisms that haven’t fully evolved yet. or abnormalities that pop up here and there, as in the monkey typing Hamlet? The deep space theory would indicate that now and then a monkey would, in fact, type Hamlet, but that doesn’t happen. Why?