Origin of Life, Theater of the Absurd

See if you can follow the logic here all the way through. Researchers sampled ancient water trapped for 1.5 billion years around what were deep-sea hydrothermal vents two kilometers under the earth's surface. The water included apparent necessities for "kick-starting" life -- like a primordial soup still in situ.

From the article at New Scientist, "Watery time capsule hints at how life got started on early Earth":

It has all the ingredients of a primordial soup. What's more, the chemicals of...