[DBrow]

“But it would be too huge a leap from the existence of clay, to the existence of life.”

Well, start with hydrogen gravitationally collapsing into a star, then work up by very little steps from there.

A big star or two must supernova to spread “heavy elements” that were made in the original star- carbon, iron, oxygen, and so forth.

And all of these processes have a beginning!

[John Leland 1789]

“A big star or two must supernova to spread “heavy elements” that were made in the original star- carbon, iron, oxygen, and so forth.”

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Still no life. That’s my theory, and it is just as observable as any other.