The Neck of the Giraffe

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You think a billion years is 'close to'?

Edit: Go figure.

From Wiki:


The earliest known life forms on Earth are putative fossilized microorganisms found in hydrothermal vent precipitates.[1] The earliest time that life forms first appeared on Earth is unknown. They may have lived earlier than 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.28 billion years ago,[1] or nearly 4.5 billion years ago according to some;[3][4] in any regards, not long after the oceans formed 4.41 billion years ago, and not long after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.[1][2][5][6] The earliest direct evidence of life on Earth are microfossils of microorganisms permineralized in 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks.[7][8]

@whodey said
From Wiki:


The earliest known life forms on Earth are putative fossilized microorganisms found in hydrothermal vent precipitates.[1] The earliest time that life forms first appeared on Earth is unknown. They may have lived earlier than 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.28 billion years ago,[1] or nearly 4.5 billion years ago according to some;[3][4] in any re ...[text shortened]... ossils of microorganisms permineralized in 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks.[7][8]

So, Earth 4 and a half billion years old and the 'earliest direct evidence of life on Earth' some 3 and a half billion years old.

Do you want some help with the math?

@kellyjay said
If they are going to mimic what happen when first life appeared, and they are
going to use intelligence, and you say there was no intelligence when life first
began! How would that be mimicking what happen if there was no intelligence
involved? Shouldn't you find a lifeless planet some place and stare at it doing
nothing?

If you must put the pieces of the puzzle toget ...[text shortened]... work, doesn't that
show you someone needs to put the pieces of the puzzle together to make it work?

There is no evidence of any intelligent lifeforms around the time life emerged on Earth.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
So, Earth 4 and a half billion years old and the 'earliest direct evidence of life on Earth' some 3 and a half billion years old.

Do you want some help with the math?

As I pointed out the issues are not solved by time. For that to be true the opportunities for success and failure would to need to be limitless and that is easily seen as not possible. The reason it cannot be true are some of the factors require materials, resources are not limitless, but finite. In addition even if the required materials come together it must be done properly. This is not like attempting to figure out how to open a combination lock with limitless attempts.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
So, Earth 4 and a half billion years old and the 'earliest direct evidence of life on Earth' some 3 and a half billion years old.

Do you want some help with the math?

As wiki indicates, scientists speculate that life originated prior to that.

Odd are it did well before the evidence was found for it.

@whodey said
As wiki indicates, scientists speculate that life originated prior to that.

Odd are it did well before the evidence was found for it.

Would 'you' speculate that life emerged just a few days after the Earth was created?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Would 'you' speculate that life emerged just a few days after the Earth was created?

You have something better? 😉

@kellyjay said
You have something better? 😉

Would you speculate sir that life existed when the Earth was still molten rock?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Would you speculate sir that life existed when the Earth was still molten rock?

If I believed it ever was one I would have a hard time with that. Can you do more than tell me it was at one time?

@kellyjay said
If I believed it ever was one I would have a hard time with that. Can you do more than tell me it was at one time?

Yes sir.

Let's start with the shape of the Earth. How do you account for it being spherical?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Would you speculate sir that life existed when the Earth was still molten rock?

It's possible.

http://www.bitsofscience.org/extremophile-bacteria-archaea-volcano-6094/

@whodey said
It's possible.

http://www.bitsofscience.org/extremophile-bacteria-archaea-volcano-6094/

Did Adam and Eve also reside in that volcano?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Yes sir.

Let's start with the shape of the Earth. How do you account for it being spherical?

Design

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Yes sir.

Let's start with the shape of the Earth. How do you account for it being spherical?

How do you account for the fine tuned universe to support life?

@kellyjay said
How do you account for the fine tuned universe to support life?

Hang on, hang on. My sequence of questions have only just started. (Happy to address yours afterward).

How does gravity affect the formation of a planet? (Or to extrapolate, if equal force was put on all sides of a small mass of snow, would you agree that you would end up with a snowball? )