Re: Life: Turn it upside down!

  Arkalen wrote:

The alkaline hydrothermal vent hypothesis doesn't involve modern alkaline hydrothermal vents, in fact it relies on the assumption the chemistry would have worked out differently in an acidic, non-oxygenated ocean.

It's Faith-Based.
If you study non life you study things that actually exist.
And I don't mean you begin with viruses or prions, either.
"Spectrum."
Create a "Complexity Spectrum" the way you might construct
a color spectrum.
Wait. That's not it.
"Electromagnetic Spectrum."
Because it doesn't begin with visible light, and it doesn't
even end there!
Who knows? Maybe if we framed life within a proper spectrum
is wouldn't end with our concept of life!
God?
Forms of intelligence we have yet to imagine?
That's pure speculation... speculating the spectrum... I
love it! I'm too clever by at least half! Or at least that's
what I say...
Okay, but properly framed within a spectrum, we certainly
don't start with life. We know that.
Where is such a spectrum published?
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