Asri-unix.495 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!DIETZ@USC-ECL Wed Jan 13 13:47:41 1982 Re: SPACE Digest V2 #78 From: Paul Dietz The claim in that news article that life has been in existence on the Earth for only 1/2 billion years is patently false. There is evidence for life going back over 3 1/2 billion years. In fact, it is now thought that it is very easy for life to get started, taking only a few million years. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.