Assertion: crick's life | /r/CapableOf | evolve on earth
Facets:
value: in the presence of water
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In a retrospective article, Crick and Orgel noted that they had been overly pessimistic about the chances of life evolving on Earth when they had assumed that some kind of self-replicating protein system was the molecular origin of life.
text: But again, the same reasoning has been employed here: Scientists assume life can evolve on earth in the presence of water, and therefore it could evolve elsewhere where conditions are appropriate (i.e. there is water).