Disheartening news for Young-Earth-Creationists

[Cypress]

3.42-Billion-Year-Old Filamentous Microfossils Found in South Africa

Paleontologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved, 3.42-billion-year-old filamentous microfossils in a paleo-subseafloor hydrothermal vein system in what is now South Africa; the filaments colonized the walls of conduits created by low-temperature hydrothermal fluid; combined with their morphological and chemical characteristics, they can be considered the oldest methane-cycling microorganisms, most likely methanogens. The presence of nickel-organic compounds is consistent with primordial metabolisms.


http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...ils-09864.html

[Phantasmal]

3.42-Billion-Year-Old Filamentous Microfossils Found in South Africa

Paleontologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved, 3.42-billion-year-old filamentous microfossils in a paleo-subseafloor hydrothermal vein system in what is now South Africa; the filaments colonized the walls of conduits created by low-temperature hydrothermal fluid; combined with their morphological and chemical characteristics, they can be considered the oldest methane-cycling microorganisms, most likely methanogens. The presence of nickel-organic compounds is consistent with primordial metabolisms.


http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...ils-09864.html

I love it, primordial soup.

[Cypress]

I love it, primordial soup.

It is extraordinary how life got started almost as soon as the Earth's surface stabilized and reached an equilibrium.

[ThatOwlWoman]

It is extraordinary how life got started almost as soon as the Earth's surface stabilized and reached an equilibrium.

Isn't it? I expect that we are going to find similar lifeforms all across the galaxy, eventually.

[Cypress]

Isn't it? I expect that we are going to find similar lifeforms all across the galaxy, eventually.

"Signs of extra terrestrial life could be found in the next two to three years, astronomers claim"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sci...ers-claim/amp/