[r9etb]

"Most of the species that did survive were highly resilient, and had the ability to remain dormant through the cosmic winter that followed. When conditions improved, these species had an advantage over their competitors and were able to proliferate and diversify."

Hmmmmm. The problem with this theory seems to be that it provides no reason for why these forms weren't diversifying before the impact.

They don't really come out and say it, but it almost sounds like they're supporting Hoyle's theories about extraterrestrial origins for life on Earth.

[wideawake]

Quix, I mean quick, check the Bible Codes!

[ffusco]

It's just like how spacemen mated with apes to create the human race...it's happenning now!


Invasion of the body snatchers, 1978

[ASA Vet]

Terra forming and seeding into a nutrient rich environment?

[jlogajan]

The problem with this theory seems to be that it provides no reason for why these forms weren't diversifying before the impact.

It's not that they weren't diversifying before the impact, it is that the existing forms were dominant under those pre-impact conditions and newly mutated forms really couldn't get a toe hold.

The impact both changed some conditions and wiped out a lot of the existing competition. And the race was on.

[colorado tanker]

They don't really come out and say it, but it almost sounds like they're supporting Hoyle's theories about extraterrestrial origins for life on Earth.

I thought that's where this article was going too - we're all space aliens.

I guess the theory of this article is that the asteroid slapped the earth out of it's torpor, kinda like the scene in B movies when the guy slaps the gal and yells "snap out of it"!

[JediJones]