Genome complexity puts origin of life 9.7B years ago

s/M/B/g

The striking thing about this prediction if true is that it didn't evolve on the Earth.

P.Z.Myers criticized this rather severely[0] a couple days back. "They cherrypicked their data points. They didn’t include lungfish, ferns, onions, or some protists because that would totally undermine their premise; those are contemporary organisms with much larger genomes than mammals’, and their shallow, stupid exercise in curve-fitting would have flopped miserably. It’s a great example of garbage in, garbage out."

[0]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/18/graaarh-ph...

Origin of life may be anywhere, but this particular paper is pseudoscientific bullshit.

Either that, or our methods for dating geological strata are flawed.