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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem.
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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem.
In the early 1970s, Vic McGregor and Stephen Moorbath demonstrated that the Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland) and its surrounding orthogneisses formed in the Eoarchean (Moorbath et al., 1972, 1973). Fifty years later, these rocks are a key resource globally for understanding the Eoarchean Earth. This is because there is an extensive area (∼200 km2) of abundant outcrops where superimposed Neoarchean strain is modest, and Neoarchean metamorphism was only at lowest amphibolite facies; these are low tectonothermal conditions compared with other Eoarchean crustal remnants globally. Therefore, th...