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Originally Posted by Kayra
One might also suggest that even if superior self assembling building blocks exist and appeared later in the evolution of life, they would have grave difficulty contending with existing life forms that have had the opportunity to adapt and efficiently avail themselves of most of the renewable energy in a system?
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I think that is a valid hypothesis, although I can't think of any evidence for it.
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Originally Posted by Kayra
Another hypothesis may be that many different "life architectures" have had their opportunity, and that life as we know it now is simply the winner by reason of any number of superior traits it possesses. One might suggest that there is "only one" remaining successful model.
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Possible as well. But this is at odds with the generally-accepted framework for "common descent".
Not that I mind being at odds with a generally-accepted framework.
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