Quality Control the Gold Standard

I think, if you know jack squat about the subject, you would know that chemists don't thing the first life was DNA based. Therefore you shoud drop references to it.

As at least Percy has pointed out life spent nearly 3 billion years before significant multicellular life arose. So "how quickly" is probably answerable with a time span of many 100's of millions of years.With generation times measured in hours and days (if current life is a measure) how many individual different trails were there between the first imperfect replicator and the trilobite?

Is that "lower" or "higher"?If 1 in a billion is the number you are critisizing and calling 10E-9. Then 10E-3 is a higher rate of mutations isn't it?

You seem to be very quick to make firm, even dogmatic, statements about this "unobservable" past. On what basis do you do that?

You've just demonstrated that you don't have the above.

Shhhhh Cavediver. It has been obvious for sometime that a large fraction of what EP says isn't true. Don't get into that; it is fun as it is.

A statement based on your ignorance. Which makes : That much more amusing.Evopeach, you need to get something very clear. We know that you have pretty much no *clue* what you are talking about. You know nothing about the subjects being discussed.You make pronouncements about "fact" but don't actually know a darned thing.