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Old 10-01-2009, 08:58 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Can you even fathom that? 3.8 billion years isn't enough time??? Can you even imagine 1000 years??? What about a million? That is a loooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg gggggggggg time. I can't even fathom 1 million years, let alone a billion!
Alright, thanks for the resource.

Can I fathom that amount of time? No, absolutely not. Especially for what a short period of time human's are alive.

On the other hand, probability wise, I have seen calculations on how long it would take for cells to mutate. Now maybe the figures were wrong, but the time needed was already in billions of years. Tell me this, do we know how many mutations would be needed to go from a single cell to a human as we have them today? I'd like to know that.
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