Meteorite impacts like the one in Scotland may have played a crucial role in creating conditions favorable for early life. The strikes fracture rocks, generate long-lived hydrothermal systems, and form crater lakes that concentrate essential ingredients for life, such as clays, organic molecules, and phosphorus. The timing correlation between impacts and significant milestones in the fossil record suggests these cosmic collisions might have been natural crater-cradles of life rather than just destructive events.
The immediate aftermath of meteorite strikes creates extreme and hostile environments that would devastate existing ecosystems. While the Stac Fada impact provides a unique opportunity to study how microbial life recovered from such catastrophic events, one should be cautious about drawing direct connections between the impact and evolutionary developments. The coincidental timing doesn't necessarily prove causation, and many other environmental factors likely influenced the development of early non-marine life forms.