Sujet : Re: OoL – out at first base?
De : me22over7 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (MarkE)
Groupes : talk.originsDate : 11. Dec 2024, 06:40:12
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On 10/12/2024 8:57 am, erik simpson wrote:
As SJ Gould remarked "life may be as common as quartz".
Gould's sound bite is revealing. Quartz is formed through a relatively simple, demonstrable process.
In contrast, "Understanding the origin of life (OoL) is one of the major unsolved scientific problems of the century."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7151616/It seems Gould is conflating life's abundance and resilience on Earth with the ease or otherwise that life may arise naturalistically.