Origins of Life on Earth

New studies of the world's most primitive living things - colonies of bacteria found on the Western Australia coast - suggest that life on Earth may have begun much earlier than the accepted date of about 3.5 billion years ago.

Read the full article:
"Life on Earth began much earlier: new research"
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2008/jun/Astrobiology_centre.html

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[unitedfc99]

It'll be pretty sweet when we find that life occurred elsewhere. Hopefully that will happen in my lifetime. Science is getting close!!

[slywinkl]

thnx for posting :) lets hope creationists dont swoop by  and try and understand whats bein said here :D

[happinesson]

from what bacteria did I came from? scientist are sometimes confusing.

[thegreeensky]

thats nice.. great discovry though... human originated from bacteria.. :)

[itzahazylife]

@howthisworldworks

if it depresses u, then u are too simple-minded to realize how amazing and beautiful it all really is.

[cinedux]

I was looking at a couple black smudges under my high-power microscope.

In one,something chemical was going on,a loss of structure and function,it was degenerating

.In the other,something biochemical was going on,it was alive............

[lobban2]

@howthisworldworks

Why? He was probably one though ameba :D

[nirotasu]

“I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam” ~ Paul Broca

[vindarm]

These scientists get paid to do research on this crap?

[howthisworldworks]

I find it very depressing to believe that my great, great, great... grandfather was an ameba. Very depressing! :(