Taken from [url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090913/tsc-sea-life-existed-before-oxygen-4b158bc.html]here[/url]:
[quote]Life existed in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years while the Earth's air was not fit to breathe, research has suggested.
Plant-like bacteria evolved at least 200 million years before oxygen began to build up in the atmosphere, a study has shown.
During this period in its history, known as the Archaean, the Earth was covered by a poisonous smog of methane, ammonia and other toxic gases.
Similar conditions exist on Saturn's moon Titan. Life as we know it today could not have survived on the early Earth.
The new study involved an analysis of ancient preserved seabed rocks from South Africa dating back two to three billion years.
US scientists at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, found chemical evidence of nitrogen cycles that could not have taken place without the presence of free oxygen.
Nitrogen cycles relate to the way living things obtain and use nitrogen to produce complex organic molecules.
Evidence of nitrogen cycles provides a "fingerprint" of life.
The researchers, Dr Linda Godfrey and Dr Paul Falkowski, concluded that organisms which produced oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis must have evolved by around 2.5 billion years ago.
Oxygen did not begin to enrich the atmosphere until at least 200 million years later.[/quote]
Bring on the negative ratings!
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False. Earth is only 4,000 years old.
"Plant-like bacteria evolved at least 200 million years before oxygen began to build up in the atmosphere, a study has shown."
Seems right.
Fake. God would not allow this.
[QUOTE=Bape;17289565]Fake. God would not allow this.[/QUOTE]
Is that sarcasm?
This is news? I thought it was an established scientific consensus.
Not so much the oxygen part but the fact that life existed for a long time in the ocean before it could survive on land. I mean really, that seems like common sense to me.
[QUOTE=gamerboy266;17289577]Is that sarcasm?[/QUOTE]
What do you think?
[QUOTE=Alde;17289520]False. Earth is only 4,000 years old.[/QUOTE]
Isn't it 6?
Science is wrong! God disagrees with this.
[QUOTE=Alde;17289520]False. Earth is only 4,000 years old.[/QUOTE]
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Ignorant Athiest. What the hell? Are you retards? The Earth is only a few thousand years old.
If you believed we evolved from Monkey's you need to seek professional help.
[QUOTE=KaIibos;17289595]This is news? I thought it was an established scientific consensus.
Not so much the oxygen part but the fact that life existed for a long time in the ocean before it could survive on land. I mean really, that seems like common sense to me.[/QUOTE]
Plant/bacteria producing oxygen and altering the athmosphere is also old.
Well duh, the bacteria made the oxygen in the first place
[QUOTE=Kondor;17289798]Well duh, the bacteria made the oxygen in the first place[/QUOTE]
Actually our lord and savior created oxygen.
SCIENCE HAS NOTHING ON RELIGION.
[QUOTE=MR-X;17289827]Actually our lord and savior created oxygen.
SCIENCE HAS NOTHING ON RELIGION.[/QUOTE]
This.
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I like how they stuck in that little tidbit of wordage at the bottom and then use an evangelical resource as a citation for their bullshit. In a "secular" state like the USA, it's against the law to teach the bible in public, government-funded schools.
[QUOTE=Alde;17289520]False. Earth is only 4,000 years old.[/QUOTE]
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Sea life existed before oxygen, eh?
That makes two of us.
i thought this was already an established fact, I remember watching something about this on TV a few years ago, they turned the CO2 into oxygen then some evolved to breathe oxygen
[QUOTE=Dr.C;17290113]i thought this was already an established fact, I remember watching something about this on TV a few years ago, they turned the CO2 into oxygen then some evolved to breathe oxygen[/QUOTE]
This is what I learned in Biology. Also, I was taught that when oxygen producing life [i]did[/i] come, it poisoned the earth for a long time until facultative anaerobes and obligate aerobes came.
[QUOTE=Wordsworth;17289763]Ignorant Athiest. What the hell? Are you retards? The Earth is only a few thousand years old.
If you believed we evolved from Monkey's you need to seek professional help.[/QUOTE]
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I fucking love these comics.
The jokes about religion got old pretty fast, can't you just leave adults with imaginary friends who talks to the void alone?
Also that's pretty cool but I thought it was pretty obvious that some bacteria doesn't need oxygen to live
Does that mean Mikfoz is actually a plant like bacterium then?
What up, science
How is this news? It's common knowledge that the current theory is that life existed before earth became oxygen rich.
i do belive facepunch only post this kind of stuff to troll religion/science wars
[QUOTE=LtBubbles;17290711]i do belive facepunch only post this kind of stuff to troll religion/science wars[/QUOTE]
Everyone who has posted here agrees with the OP but he only has negative ratings because this is shit everyone already knew
[QUOTE=LtBubbles;17290711]i do belive facepunch only post this kind of stuff to troll religion/science wars[/QUOTE]
But facepunch is a forum for nerds. Nerds are usually atheist unless they are religion nerds. But religion nerds doesn't come here. So what is the point of "trolling" atheist nerds?
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