Show WHEN LIFE BEGAN ON EARTH surface must then have been sea of molten rock life on earth began athen the sur face was a sea of molten rock it we may accept the theory of geoffrey martin of kiel university it must have been based on silicon instead of carbon and associated with it as fundamental elements were perhaps phosphorus sulphur and oxygen in place of the hydrogen oxygen and nl trogen of modern life forms this sill cious life is supposed to have flourished in the sea of molten rock with which it blended at death leav ing no trace A possible trace how ever may remain in many remarkable minerals whose fiber like structure may be due to former existence in or ganic form asbestos being an ex ample with the cooling of the earth carbon entered more and more into the composition of living mat ter and the silicon solidified out there may now be worlds at high temperature it is contended with life in its silicon age |