Posted: Mar 15, 2017 1:50 pm
juju7 wrote:crank wrote:You really need to come up with less misrepresentative thread titles, and also post some info about the topic. Your posts would have a better chance of getting looked at and less chance of pissing folk off. This isn't about the origin of life, it's about finding the earliest evidence yet of life.
I disagree with you the earliest evidence points to the origin.
No. Here's why: This could simply be evidence of early life, several hundred millions years after it's origin.
Before this particular study, the earliest evidence was from 3.4 billion years ago approximately, was that then pointing to the origin of life? Of course not, since we now have evidence of life from 3.8 billion years ago.
Before the 3.4 billion year study, the earliest evidence was from about 2.7 billion years ago, was that then pointing to the origin of life? Again, no, for the same reason. All you can say when you have evidence of life existing, is that life existed at that time. It doesn't in any way imply it is evidence from the origin of life.