All intelligent life is multi-cellular, and multi-cellular life is only possible if the cells have the capability of producing energy. The cells in present day humans, animals, and plants, examples of complex cellular life, require oxygen to break nutrients down and create energy. Since the earths environment consisted almost entirely of carbon dioxide prior to the Wiwaxia event, there is little chance that any intelligent life existed on earth prior to the Wiwaxia event.Which of the following is required to draw the conclusion in the above argument?a)Recently discovered evidence suggests that there may have been breathable air on the earth several millennia before the Wiwaxia event.b)The cellular life that existed before the Wiwaxia event had little ability to process atmospheric carbon dioxide, extracting oxygen from the same.c)After the Wiwaxia event, the carbon dioxide in the earths atmosphere decreased by the same amount that the oxygen in the atmosphere increased.d)Multi-cellular organisms require more energy than single-celled organisms.e)Disruptions such as the Wiwaxia event have been observed on other planets that are believed to be capable of supporting life.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

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Which of the following is required to draw the conclusion in the above argument?

a)
Recently discovered evidence suggests that there may have been breathable air on the earth several millennia before the Wiwaxia event.
b)
The cellular life that existed before the Wiwaxia event had little ability to process atmospheric carbon dioxide, extracting oxygen from the same.
c)
After the Wiwaxia event, the carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere decreased by the same amount that the oxygen in the atmosphere increased.
d)
Multi-cellular organisms require more energy than single-celled organisms.
e)
Disruptions such as the Wiwaxia event have been observed on other planets that are believed to be capable of supporting life.

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The author concludes that there is little chance that any intelligent life existed on earth prior to the WE. The conclusion is based on the facts that present day cells require oxygen to break nutrients down and create energy and that the earth’s environment consisted almost entirely of CO2 before the WE.

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To pre-think assumptions, let’s see how we can falsify this conclusion. To do so, we will look at the logical structure, focusing on linkage 1 and the conclusion. We will understand the condition under which the conclusion is falsified. The assumption then will be that the condition does not exist.

Linkage#1 – (ref. logical structure)

Falsification Condition: What if the cells had the capability to extract oxygen out of the abundant carbon dioxide present in the earth’s atmosphere before the WE and in turn use that to create energy? Surely, the author won’t be able to conclusively say that a lack of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere at the time indicates that there is little chance that any intelligent life existed then and thus the conclusion will be falsified.
- Assumption: Cells existing before the WE had little ability to utilize carbon dioxide in some way to produce energy.

With this pre-thinking in mind, let’s evaluate the answer choices.

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Recently discovered evidence suggests that there may have been breathable air on the earth several millennia before the Wiwaxia event.

Incorrect - Opposite

This option weakens the conclusion. If there were breathable air before the WE, it’s possible that intelligent organisms existed even then, as the cells of these organisms could’ve utilized the oxygen to produce energy.

The cellular life that existed before the Wiwaxia event had little ability to process atmospheric carbon dioxide, extracting oxygen from the same.

Correct

This choice is written along the lines of our pre-thinking per Linkage #1 assumption. This option suggests that cellular life before the WE had little ability to process atmospheric CO2.

After the Wiwaxia event, the carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere decreased by the same amount that the oxygen in the atmosphere increased.

Incorrect - Irrelevant

This option talks about the amount by which carbon dioxide decreased after the WE. But this information is irrelevant as we are interested in knowing only what happened before the WE.

Multi-cellular organisms require more energy than single-celled organisms.

Incorrect - Irrelevant

The argument is concerned with only multicellular organisms. This option makes a superfluous comparison between multicellular organisms and single-celled organisms, a piece of information that has no bearing on the argument.

Disruptions such as the Wiwaxia event have been observed on other planets that are believed to be capable of supporting life.

Incorrect - Irrelevant

This option talks about the occurrence of disruptions similar to the WE on other planets. However, the conclusion of the argument is concerned with the presence of intelligent life on earth. Hence, the information given in this choice is irrelevant.

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