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Wed Jan 13 13:47:41 1982
Re: SPACE Digest V2 #78
From: Paul Dietz <DIETZ at USC-ECL>
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.
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