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I don’t know. I have not read his book. He may also have had data that was not in his book.
I don’t know. See above.
In general yes. I have already said that a bacterium is more probable than a human brain.
A single amoeba can live for less than a year. A higher clade of amoeba can live for hundreds of millions of years. You have not indicated whether you are talking about individuals, species or clades. That is what is imprecise.
Just that, it works. Why would I need more?
Did you bother to read beyond the title? The second sentence of the article itself reads: “New neuroscience research may help explain the exiled Tibetan leader’s unremitting compassion for all people.” Is there any point in my posting links to articles if all you read is the title?
There is a book called “Genesis”; it says nothing about Adam or Eve because neither are mentioned in the title of the book.
Find a better theory and you will get a Nobel prize. Einstein found a better theory than Newton’s. Until a better theory comes along we will continue to use the best we have to hand. At the moment in biology the theory of evolution is the best we have. Abiogenesis does not have a theory yet, but it does have a number of hypotheses that are being worked on. There is a place there for a new theory, all you need is some experimental support. All science is provisional; find a better theory, gather experimental support and your name will be in lights.
To appear? less likely. To survive? more likely. An amoeba’s lifetime is far shorter than a human lifetime.
Hardly. Once started, life can continue to survive as long as the environment does not change too much too quickly. Life has already survived the Snowball Earth. It will not survive being engulfed by the Sun. Some sort of life would probably survive anything much short of that, though a repeat of the Late Heavy Bombardment might succeed in killing everything.
The long term survival of any particular species is much more precarious. IIRC mammal species tend to last for about 1,000,000 years on average though I am open to correction on that figure.
Not particularly. Life adapts to its environment, so a slowly changing environment will not threaten life. A quickly changing environment over the whole planet will, hence my comments about the Sun or a repeat of the LHB.
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