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What does primordial soup mean?

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  1. (evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
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Its mission is to study the primordial soup of our solar system, which is sealed away inside comets.
The issue of the Special Creation of Life by a Higher Intelligence versus spontaneous generation from a primordial soup has been the subject of debate for many years.
Prior to that time, particles of energy, photons, and particles of matter, protons and electrons, were all mixed together in a kind of hot primordial soup.
Within a few steps this primordial soup gave way to mosses, ferns and damp rainforest before opening up to show a variety pollinating plants.
So, it seems, the Earth's primordial soup was primed with the monomers for making the polymeric components of primitive life.
It has taken three to four billion years for our species to emerge since primitive life-forms first arose in the primordial soup.

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