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Old 16-May-2008, 03:21 AM
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Originally Posted by tomsolomon View Post
The basic scientific pricipals, and common sense state, that the Earth at some time in its early life should have been covered completely in water.
Forgive my naivity, but I would have thought that this simple fact would have been obvious the most experienced of minds.
Common sense tells me that we cannot know one way or the other, in the absence of information about the original amount of water and the lumpiness of the surface.