If they only would have asked me...

It appears that Darwin's 140-year-old theory that life began in volcanic waters that were extremely hot and acidic (with a bit of clay, mind you) is about to go bye-bye.

Life is likely [edit: someday this will probably be proven wrong as well!] to have emerged in warm puddles of fresh water and not the piping-hot volcanic springs that have often been proposed as its source, research has suggested.

An experiment to recreate the conditions in which life began has revealed that the hot, acidic, clay-filled waters that had been proposed as prime candidates are probably incapable of mixing organic matter in the right way.

The scientific group testing the theories are now moving their testing grounds from volcanic, acidic waters to pools of fresh, warm water. Sure, that will help.

If only they would have asked me first! I could have told them that Darwin's theory would not "support life!" They could have saved money!