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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think this news is just as interesting as extraterrestial life. This really bolsters the theory that abiogenesis actually isn't that uncommon, but is difficult to detect because on our life-filled planet, any abiogenesis gets lost in the noise and is probably either immediately swallowed up by pre-existing life forms or mistaken for pre-existing life-forms. But in a poisonous lake, none of that noise exists and so these arsenic life forms can actually survive long-enough to be observed.
I'm really curious to see what the creationists and intelligent designists do with this info.
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Unfortunately this discovery doesn't really fall along these lines, it isn't a life form from a completely separate and different abiogenesis event, it's simply an organism that has incorporated arsenic, it is a eukaryote just like you and me, from the same family tree.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/no...-about-aliens/