Posted on 07/30/2016 8:13:28 PM PDT by PROCON
The day Gil Levin says he detected life on Mars, he was waiting in his lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, watching a piece of paper inch out of a printer.
Levin snatched the sheet and scrutinized the freshly inked graph. A thin line measuring radioactive carbon crept steadily upward, just as it always did when Levin performed the test with microbes on Earth. But this data came from tens of millions of miles away, where NASA's Viking lander was — for the first time in history — conducting an experiment on the surface of Mars.
"Gil, that's life," his co-investigator, Patricia Straat, exclaimed when she saw the first results come in. There was jubilation at JPL. Afterward, Levin said, he drove into the mountains above Los Angeles, sat on the ground and stared up at the night sky.
"I was sort of trembling, you know?" he recalled. It was July 30, 1976.
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G A Kerkut. ‘The implications of Evolution.” Read it, then get back to me. Here is a primer but it is available online.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=247
NASA is so obsessed with life on Mars that I have suspected it has political agenda, atheist agenda specifically.
Contamination, that’s a nice “out” just in case some type of life is found there. Those vehicles were sterilized to the nth degree before launch and I seriously doubt that there were any nooks and crannies available that would shield a microbe through that kind of hard vacuum journey. What sort of argument would one use if life was found that didn’t remotely resemble any current genetic lines known on earth?
And what do you mean by purpose? Definitively stating that it would have no purpose seems to me to be treading on the ground of assuming knowledge of the mind of God. What purpose does the colony of organisms around a deep sea vent serve? For all intents and purposes that was an impossible for life area up until it was found there 30 or 40 years ago.
Evolution aside, (and that was a good read, I liked it), where is it written that there’s been nothing put anywhere else?
Don’t remember. There was a four-banger engine called the Pinto engine used in lots of Ford of Europe cars that did appear in the US Pinto, though.
They already found life ... now they are going to break it slowly to us
How did they sterilize them? By radiation of all carbon based cells?
I agree.
I think that if there ever was life on Mars we would have found something by now. On Earth, you couldn't find anyplace at all to land a rover, have it examine soil and rocks and not find signs of both current and past life.
If there ever was life on Mars, there should be evidence in every scoop of sand. I think we've had several instruments there to do all sorts of stuff for quite some time now, and nothing... zilch... not a single bacteria corpse.
But... we are introducing things from Earth there, so who knows.... perhaps in a couple billion years they could evolve to produce a Justin Bieber.
The ice warriors were from Mars.
C.S. Lewis had little trouble accepting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It’s clear not only in his Space Trilogy but also in his Narnia series.
Medieval sources had already speculated on whether the heavenly bodies were sentient (that’s where Lewis got his “oyarsa”/ousiarchs), and of course when Dante travels up past the Earth into the spheres of the planets he finds them all inhabited as the abode of the blessed.
On this, as many other matters, modern Christians would do well to read more widely and outside their own cultures & times.
NASA was created as a public relations and disinformation front for military and intelligence community uses of space.
It really stands for Never A Straight Answer.
As for Mars, you can be sure that any information they share will be a pack of lies.
Indeed wishful thinking with no proof of any type it’s like the hey isn’t that a jelly donut on the ground story.
Some never except we are alone the odds of another planet to hold any type like earth cant even be calculated.
I too believe life is probably on Mars. We know now there is liquid water at the surface in intermittent seeps, there is still heat in the core of the planet, it is close enough to earth for life to make the leap in the form of earth meteorites, and life is probably a natural, if rare form of matter. All matter self-arranges into patterns, such as crystals, and life is just an extreme example of that.
No, as part of his Muslim outreach program, he will more likely declare that Mohammed visited Mars first.
What purpose does the colony of organisms around a deep sea vent serve?
for that matter, what purpose does any life form serve, except to attend to its own perpetuation...?
I agree, bringing ‘purpose’ into this discussion was quite odd...
Yehova had ‘purpose’ in creating life only here on Earth.
Life of Earth origin likely still exists on comets that all were ejected from Earth during volcanic episodes of the Genesis judgement (”fountains of the great deep”).
Wasn't he a villain in the Brit scifi comic Dan Dare?
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