"If you are a scientist, try this exercise.
---Dream up the dumbest thing you can imagine.
---Then write a paper with equations and jargon to make it sound credible, and get an artist to illustrate it.
Maybe you would come up with something like this.
Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it (15 Oct 2024, The Conversation). Aman Agrawal should
know better. As a veteran origin-of-lifer at the University of Chicago, he cannot possibly believe that the raindrops that keep falling on his head inspired him to come up with this idea. We’ve run across many inadequate theories for the origin of life for over two decades, like the fatbubble theory, but this one sets a new low.
Just thinking how far science has fallen into fantasyland since Charley wrote his “abstract” of a godless material world turning warm little ponds into cells and bears into whales is enough to bring on stomach pains from a severe case of LOL."
Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it (15 Oct 2024, The Conversation). Aman Agrawal should
"In our recently published research in the journal Science Advances, my colleagues from the University of Chicago and the University of Houston and I explored a fascinating possibility that rainwater played a crucial role in stabilizing early cells, paving the way for life’s complexity."
Just thinking how far science has fallen into fantasyland since Charley wrote his “abstract” of a godless material world turning warm little ponds into cells and bears into whales is enough to bring on stomach pains from a severe case of LOL."
CEH
