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From what we can tell so far, life has only arisen once on earth - wouldn't that also be an indication that genesis is rather hard/rare ? If life could easily
by noselasd 12y ago
From what we can tell so far, life has only arisen once on earth - wouldn't that also be an indication that genesis is rather hard/rare ?
If life could easily form, one would think it would do so many times here on earth.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> From what we can tell so far, life has only arisen once on earth - wouldn't that also be an indication that genesis is rather hard/rare ? Not really. It might just mean that the emergence of life itself created conditions no longer favorable for the emergence of life.
- RyanMcGreal 12y agoIt's instructive that the first living organisms were anaerobic and produced oxygen as waste. It wasn't until much later that aerobic organisms evolved to consume the waste of the anaerobic organisms.