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You keep saying that last part and it's meaningless. The Sun (and sometimes the earth itself) provides energy to the system, and we're talking about a billion
by postmodest 3y ago
You keep saying that last part and it's meaningless.
The Sun (and sometimes the earth itself) provides energy to the system, and we're talking about a billion years to go from "churning precursors in a hot soup" to "replicating molecular machines".
I mean, what's your alternative theory? The Abrahamic God?
- fastaguy88 3y agoNot really a billion years though. Perhaps several hundred million between when there was liquid water on earth and evidence of bacterial life. A surprisingly short time. We have spend almost 10x as long evolving to modern organisms than it took to get started.
- postmodest 3y agoTrue... I was trying to be generous. (...or conservative; whichever way you slice it.) It is fascinating how early "goop to replicators" happened in our history. It really highlights how common life must be where there's water.