This article came across my newsfeed. I wasn't going to open it, but then my curiosity got the better of me, so I clicked on it and lightly skimmed a few lines, just to see if my suspicions were well-founded. Seems I was right.
Just another bait and switch article that has a title meant to grab your attention, "Hey look! We thought we knew what the origin of life was, but now it might have been different!", and then the body of the article has nothing at all about life's actual origin, just another presentation about rearranging the order of molecules and discussing the "life that already exists," just another step in the already started process of evolution.
www.popularmechanics.com
I ran it past ChatGPT just to make sure I wasn't missing anything by not reading the entire article, and here's what it had to say:
One more case of "We don't actually know how life started, but it definitely wasn't God!"
Just another bait and switch article that has a title meant to grab your attention, "Hey look! We thought we knew what the origin of life was, but now it might have been different!", and then the body of the article has nothing at all about life's actual origin, just another presentation about rearranging the order of molecules and discussing the "life that already exists," just another step in the already started process of evolution.
Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.
I ran it past ChatGPT just to make sure I wasn't missing anything by not reading the entire article, and here's what it had to say:
One more case of "We don't actually know how life started, but it definitely wasn't God!"