[ExI] Life began with a planetary mega-organism?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:47:39PM -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:

> How much do we know about the chemical origins of life? Their book is

We know a damn lot, but we don't have a smoking gun (fossilized
prebiotic chemistry) yet. The current vogue points the blame
at hydrothermal sulfides (black smokers).

> quite out of date (circa 1985) so I'm assuming that a lot of the stuff
> they are talking about is entirely out of date, in addition to being
> misleading. I really don't understand why they have to resort to

You can't argue science with believers. It's an exercise in
futility.

> quoting people out of context so very much... sigh. If the truth is on
> your side, why would you have to be so tricky about it??

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