The article claims that 363 billion tons of phosphorous were dropped on earth 3.26 billion years ago during a decade of darkness.
I’m completely incapable of making sense of that claim because it’s so far outside of my expertise.
But my fundamental problem is that I don’t trust the source’s incentives to deliver reliable information and I want someone independent to help me understand if this is a how strong or weak this science is.
And my starting point for that is “it’s very hard to know anything specific about the deep past. And I’m tired of scientific retractions.”
I’m completely incapable of making sense of that claim because it’s so far outside of my expertise.
But my fundamental problem is that I don’t trust the source’s incentives to deliver reliable information and I want someone independent to help me understand if this is a how strong or weak this science is.
And my starting point for that is “it’s very hard to know anything specific about the deep past. And I’m tired of scientific retractions.”