Life formed 60 million years earlier than thought

[Atheon]

See? The Sientists are RONG agin!!

And I quote: "Geologists in Ireland have rewritten the evolutionary history books by finding that oxygen-producing life forms were present on Earth some 3 billion years ago -- a full 60 million years earlier than previously thought."

Sience chanjed its Mind agen!! They can't Make up there minds!! But the BIBBLE is never Chanjing and therfor is alwiz RITE! Sez so in the BIBBLE!

Therfor the URTH was Created 6000 yers aggo by GOD just As JESUS sed in Genisis!!


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140904121245.htm

[Hydra009]

There was virtually no atmospheric O2 present 3.4 billion years ago, but recent work from South African paleosols suggested that by about 2.96 billion years ago O2 levels may have begun to increase. Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

While it is a lot of time in the hustle-and-bustle of the Phanerozoic Eon (541 mya - present), in the relatively sluggish Archean Eon (4000 mya - 2500 mya), it's not that much of a difference.

It's known that the first oxygen-producing microorganisms lived many millions of years before the Great Oxygenation Event, so I don't get what the big deal is in pushing that back a few more millions of years.

[the_antithesis]

Sience chanjed its Mind agen!! They can't Make up there minds!! But the BIBBLE is never Chanjing and therfor is alwiz RITE! Sez so in the BIBBLE!

The difference between when science changes its mind and when religion changes its mind is that when science changes, it never goes back to what it used to say ever again. Religion will say whatever it thinks it needs to say and will pick up and discard positions willy-nilly.

[Solitary]

Thanks Atheon! Your sarcasm is noted. Solitary

[SGOS]

It's known that the first oxygen-producing microorganisms lived many millions of years before the Great Oxygenation Event, so I don't get what the big deal is in pushing that back a few more millions of years.

60 million doesn't seem like that much in the big picture.  Unless you're a creationist.  Then it's way more than the age of the universe, and it's not only wrong, it's incomprehensible, almost as big as like 50,000.

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[Hydra009]

60 million doesn't seem like that much in the big picture.  Unless you're a creationist.  Then it's way more than the age of the universe, and it's not only wrong, it's incomprehensible, almost as big as like 50,000.

Heh.  Remember when the age of the earth was adjusted slightly?  (Only a few million years, irrc)  Creationists freaked!

[josephpalazzo]

60 million doesn't seem like that much in the big picture.  Unless you're a creationist.  Then it's way more than the age of the universe, and it's not only wrong, it's incomprehensible, almost as big as like 50,000.

Numbers tell the TRUTH.

Consider that 60 millions out of 14.7 billions, that's an error of 0.4%. OTOH, for the creationist, an error of 1 day out of seven(source: the bible) represents an error of 14%. 

Science wins.

[Hydra009]

Yeah, the creationist estimate of the age of the earth is wrong at about the same level as asking for directions for somewhere downtown and giving directions to a different continent.

[stromboli]

Numbers tell the TRUTH.

Consider that 60 millions out of 14.7 billions, that's an error of 0.4%. OTOH, for the creationist, an error of 1 day out of seven(source: the bible) represents an error of 14%. 

Science wins.

This. ^

[Contemporary Protestant]

Something interesting I have come across is that hebrew word for day in genesis is "yom" which has five different definitions. Only one directly translates as a 24 hour period

[the_antithesis]

Something interesting I have come across is that hebrew word for day in genesis is "yom" which has five different definitions. Only one directly translates as a 24 hour period

No one gives a fuck.