wellwisher
The early earth before life, needed precursors before life could form.
Such precursors have been found in meteorites and between the stars in space.
Experiments to create these precursors from simple gases, led to things being produced, that were not expected, such as oils and bitumen and other complex resins
So?
It logically follows (with logic not important to the religion of evolution) it would be hundreds of millions of years before life would appear and the oils and tars would accumulate to later to be infiltrated by life.
The documented history of life on Earth goes all the way back to 3.5 billion years ago. Earlier life probably left no fossil evidence, so we only know that algae existed at that point...
This ^ is a 3.45 billion year old version of this v
Stromatolites growing today in Shark Bay, Australia. Structurally indistinguishable from those in the 3.45 billion year old fossil.
Life started in the oceans, probably around the scads of hot smokers on the hot ocean floor. Many, if not all, of the precursors for life were delivered, ready to use, by the debris of our solar system falling into that ocean(the ocean water was delivered the same way), the smokers delivered heat energy and chemical food, the ocean depths protected them from UV(no ozone layer until free oxygen exists)simmer and stir for a few million years... These stromatolites are far from the first forms of life, they are just the first ones that left any fossil evidence, laying down layers of waste rock on the layers of cells below them, preserving quite fine details for comparison with modern examples of the same family. They are really quite sophisticated organisms who found(by accident)a niche that has changed slowly enough over 3.5 billion years that they could keep up without major structural changes(they had to adjust to rising free oxygen levels over a billion or so years early on, levels they helped to create).
But since evolution is a religion and that religion already had the fable of life making oil and coal, this could not change.
Evolution is an event(a change to an organism is an evolution of that organism), it is a process(descent with modification tested by survival in the environment to reproduce)and it is a fact that life evolved from other, often simpler forms and that a constant progression of complexity and capabilities can be seen over that history(as well as relatively simple creatures that fit a niche so well they hardly change at all for billions of years). It is a fact that life has existed for nearly the entire 4.7 billion years the sun and Earth have existed(minus a few hundred million right at the start). Facts are those things that have been supported by the evidence to the point that it is perverse to deny them. The denial of facts that you must go through to avoid terminal cognitive dissonance allows you to know nothing about how the world really works(hint, it isn't magic), that's religion.
Back in the 1960's they put a man on the moon in less than a decade and have not be able to match this feat since then.
The whole moon landing program was based on a political stunt. It wasn't a total waste of time and money, but it was more wasteful than it should have been. If we had put that effort into being able to reach low Earth orbit cheaply and reliably we would be out to Jupiter by now, or at least the asteroid belt(the real prize). Why go right back into a gravity well when you just burned up a whole Saturn 5 to get you out of one? Leave airless moons to robots, start using the resources of the Solar System directly. The moon program actually put us behind where we should be, not ahead.
Science was smarter and more creative back then and has become more dumbed down
Actually, we're much more knowledgeable now, in everything. The main computer on Apollo will fit in your wrist watch now. And our rovers have been on Mars for years now, it was in the news.
Science expected changes in the status quo that would make such advances possible, not the dogma of empirical science that is more show due to technology but less go due to less ability. Maybe the wrong leaders lead science; celebrity instead of substance.
You really don't have a clue, do you?
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