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Origin of Life  

ON PLANET EARTH

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ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH

How Life Was Started on Planet Earth

Articles > UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago

Ten years ago, an international team of scientists reported evidence, in a controversial cover story in the journal Nature, that life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago–400 million years earlier than previously thought. A UCLA professor who was not part of that team and two of the original authors will report in late July that the evidence is stronger than ever.

The scientists see light carbon inclusions in a phosphate mineral called apatite, which is also the material of which bones and teeth are made.

"This paper shows, with far greater confidence than we ever had before, that these rocks are older than 3.8 billion years," said Manning, who has conducted extensive research in Greenland. "We have shown that the rocks are appropriate for hosting life.

Manning agrees, saying he is confident the rocks contain evidence of ancient life, but "it’s not a slam dunk."

An unanswered question is how life originally could have arisen from lifeless molecules and evolved into the already sophisticated isotope fractioning life forms recorded in the Akilia rocks.

The research on the Akilia rocks is federally funded by the National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/) and the NASA Astrobiology Institute (http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/), a partnership between NASA, 12 major U.S. teams and six international consortia.

The carbon aggregates in the rocks have a ratio of about 100-to-one of 12C (the most common isotope form of carbon, containing six protons and six neutrons) to 13C (a rarer isotopic form of carbon, containing six protons and seven neutrons). The light carbon, 12C, is more than 3 per cent more abundant than scientists would expect to find if life were not present, and 3 percent is very significant, Harrison said.

Carbon inclusions in the rocks were analyzed with UCLA’s high-resolution ion microprobe–an instrument.

Origin of Life on Earth

Origin of Life on Earth

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The video shows that the results of research regarding the Origin of Life on earth. It shows how Life was started from Water, Minerals,  Rocks, Clay & Mud more than billions of years ago. Which paved the way to present-day Life (Life and Rocks are part of the same story).

 

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Life Created from Clay - Sounding Clay by God

The last Book revealed to Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), around 1400 years ago, mention in many verses the human's  life creation from :  

 

  • Clay commingled with water!

  • Create a human being out of clay.

  • Created man out of sounding clay, like pottery.

Last Scripture from God & Origin of Life from Clay, Sounding Pottery. 

 

Holy Quran: As-Saffat (The Rangers) 37:11

فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَم مَّنْ خَلَقْنَا إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُم مِّن طِينٍ لَّازِبٍ


Translations | CommentaryAYK | Context

AND NOW ask those [who deny the truth] to enlight­en thee: Were they more difficult to create than all those [untold marvels] that We have created? - for, behold, them have We created out of [mere] clay commingled with water

Holy Quran: Ar-Rahman (The Most Beneficent) 55:14

خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِن صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ


Translations | CommentaryAY | Context

He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery,  
 

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