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You do realize that I was talking about our planet, don't you? IIRC, our remotely operated submersibles that made the photos at the link also retrieved samples of a significant number of those "lifeforms".

Bur you missed my main point: How could lifeforms as we know them have evolved into those "alien" critters that live in that "deadly" environment down on the mid-oceanic ridge?

Do you think that, perhaps, our Creator had a hand in that?

(BTW, sometimes , when you wax philosophical, your musings get a mite too "squishy" for my literalist mind...) LOL!

[betty boop]

You do realize that I was talking about our planet, don't you?

No, didn't realize that, didn't read the article.

But you missed my main point: On what basis were these critturs classified as "lifeforms?" (I notice you had the good sense to put the term in quotation marks.)

I'm not saying they aren't life forms mind you. But it would seem if they are life forms, then this complicates the issue of how to define life. And that definition is still missing. Biology continues to be unrigorous, even "squishy" in this regard.