Avalach21 said:
First off, they made a couple amino acids in the models, but have no idea how these amino acids would come together to form life.
Second off, the Earth did not have a billion years for life to show up. During the first Billion or so years, up until 3.8 billion years ago, the Earth was experiencing the Late Heavy Bombardment. In this period, vast amounts of foreign objects were continuously pelting the Earth (and all other nearby planets). All of the oceans vaporized, and all solid rock melted. The earliest fossils found of Earth are 3.5 billion years old (some stromatolites). This leaves .3 billion years for primitive life to form. |
So...couldn't some of those things that bombarded the earth have contained living organisms? There is no reason why life couldn't have migrated from somewhere else to earth and simply adapted to living here.
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