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August 1, 2020January 29, 2022

Life Before Oxygen

always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
(2 Timothy 3:7) ESV

In the Matty’s Paradigm narrative cellular life originates in water in zero-G before there was an atmosphere. Here’s some science lingo attempting to explain super-sized prokaryotic cells in an environment with no oxygen.

February 12, 2018January 29, 2022

Life before oxygen: Fossils of 2.5 billion-year-old bacteria reveal organisms thrived despite early Earth’s harsh conditions

This is a direct copy of a SciPop or news article preserved here because things on the internet have a bad habit of disappearing when you try to find them again. Full credit is given to the original authors and the source.
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Geologists found large spherical fossils thought to be from microbial life
Microbes lived in the ocean depths before Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere
Researchers claim they are the oldest bacteria of their kind to be found
It is thought they got energy from sulfur compounds seeping out from the Earth’s crust, similar to bacteria found at hydrothermal vents today