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- From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
- Subject: Re: YOUNG EARTHERS _AND_ BIBLE CRITICS WATCH OUT! (huh?)
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- steven joseph chmura (sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
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- : Err. I think the "warm little pond" has been laid to rest finally.
- : Those "garden of eden" type scientific origin of life hypothesis have all
- : been shot and, in most peoples opinion, are all but dead. The earth when
- : life arose, was far more virulent and interesting than these "warm" ponds
- : where life could just spring up.
- :
- : The earth was hot. Water was alomost non-existext for the first beggingings
- : of life. Iron and metal catalysis through thin membrane like structures
- : were probably the first beggings of "life".
- :
- : For more info, I encourage you to read "On the Origins" a recently published
- : work by Dr. Carle Woose of the University of Illinois C/U. He has, among
- : other things, given us the modern taxonomy of Archeobacteria and how
- : these fit into the very early evolutionary tree.
-
-
- Why do you think Woose has come up with the definitive abiogenesis
- theory? And furthermore, in what media did those thin membrane-like
- structures exist, if not water? Please be more specific -- this theory
- sounds interesting but you've only provided the barest details.
- Furthermore, it sounds like it might agree with my favorite --
- the deep-sea hot springs. That's why I'd like a better description.
-
- Jim Acker
- jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
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