Scientists journey towards centre of the Earth to seek out origins of life

Times Online ^ | 1/16/06 | Leo Lewis

[CarolinaGuitarman]

You posted:

"The fossil evidence proving evolution is overwhelming"

Which looks like something I posted at some time, but is outside of this discussion, and was not posted by me here. If you want to disrupt a thread, go somewhere else.

[VadeRetro]

Sounds like they're trying to do what old Project Moho never did, hit the Mohorovcic Discontinuity. Ya like dem woids?

[Thombo2]

It'll be interesting to see what they bring up.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"The Japanese ship Chikyu intends to drill seven kilometres (4.3 miles) below the sea bed"

I sure wish I'd have known they were interested in getting to the center of the earth a little sooner....
I would have lent them my dog who has been there several times while chasing a mole...

[VadeRetro]

They aren't drilling for fossils. They're drilling to the mantle, or very near.

[VadeRetro]

Project Mohole, not "Moho." And it's "Mohorovicic."

[thackney]

Not the deepest.

The soviets drilled to over 12 kilometers (SG-3) on the Kola Peninsula working from 1970 to 1989.

[VadeRetro]

Continental mass extends a lot deeper than the typical thin ocean crust. They probably never got near the mantle.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

Was that drilling under the sea? I have to admit I am not very familiar with deep Earth drilling and posted this because it looked interesting.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Scientists journey towards centre of the Earth to seek out origins of life

With a sutitable travelling companion, no doubt: Barbie's sister, Arlene.

[Edit35]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" I don't need to go to the center of the earth to find out...

Did God create the "grass, and herb yielding seed and .. fruit" before or after he created the "greater light" to rule the day and the "lesser light" to rule the night? (Genesis 1: 11 and 16)

And if so, how did the grass and fruit trees survive those two days with no sun?

As a serious, devout Christian, that is something I always wondered.

My point is that I would never presume to have all the answers as to how, when, and how long God took to create the earth and all the life there-in.

Suffice it to say that God uses many metaphors in the Bible, and I am not so presumptive as to insist I know which ones are literal and which ones are allegorical.

[VadeRetro]

Anyway, The Kola Superdeep Borehole.

[Rudder]

The Miller and Urey theory, that is still being taught, says that life began in the primordial soup of the early oceans.

Well, good try but, since you misrepresented their experiment and purpose, you get no cigar.

In 1953 Stanley Miller and Harold Urey performed the first experiment to test the Oparin-Haldane Theory about the evolution of prebiotic chemicals.

[b_sharp]

"Was that drilling under the sea?"

I for one have no idea. All my drilling is much closer to home.

[The_Republican]

Why don't they just rent the movie?

[WritetheNews]

I predict creamy delicious Twinkie filling.
On the other hand, It could be bilious acid dregs from the caustic pools of Hell.
Alternatively, they might find seeds. These could be rocketed onto the surface of Mars for a new Chia-Earth.
Unfortunately, I could find no prediction from Nostradamus....

[Freebird Forever]

I have to admit I am not very familiar with deep Earth drilling and posted this because it looked interesting.

You may find this book by Dr. Thomas Gold of interest.

The Deep Hot Biosphere.

[GoDuke]

Since God is said to provide light in the eternal kingdom in Revelation, and he created light (...let there be light...) before he created the Sun and stars, I would think he himself provided the light for the plants. Also, how many plants die without 1 day of light, as the Sun and stars were created the next day? I think we forget to ask how reletivity plays into a 6 day creation. 6 days for whom? Maybe it depends on your perspective. All I really know is that I don't know much but I've never had a reason to doubt God.

[americanMel]

NOOOOO! Oh Gawd Noooo! They'll start the crack in the world!

Snort!