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Originally Posted by Richard of Chelmsford
Or is it possible that new life is being created all the time? That right now, out in your garden, deep in the soil, chemicals are combining and re-combining to form simple new lifeforms, some of which will die off, others of which will add to the life already on the planet and will move forward and evolve?
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I don't think so. Life can evolve from the most primitive combinations in a lifeless environment. Once life is established in one place, a new inefficient primitive form of life has hardly any chance to compete for resources with many hundred million years of evolution. First life to spread conquers all.