Here's an article from Linda Moulton Howe's site re a protoge of Astronomer Fred Holye and the red rain organisms in India which do not seem to have earthly DNA but which replicate. Excerpts follow from:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1129&category=Science HERE
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Red Rain Cells of Kerala, India - Still No Definite DNA
© 2006 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 19, 2006 Cardiff, Wales - Nearly half a century ago in 1960, a mathematics graduate student from Colombo, Sri Lanka, set off on his first international trip to Cambridge, England. His name is Chandra Wickramasinghe. He was fascinated by stars in the night skies, wondered about other life Out There, and his Cambridge University advanced degree was in Astronomy. His faculty supervisor was the famous Cambridge astronomer, Fred Hoyle. The two men had the curiosity and courage to look for other life in the universe by studying cosmic dust. Their controversial panspermia hypothesis was that the universe is teeming with at least microbial life, which can be transported from one cosmic location to another. In their collaboration, the two astronomers felt strongly that the double helix DNA found in all Earth life had been seeded here by comets or other cosmic bodies and that same DNA would be found in all life forms throughout the cosmos.
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Dr. Louis reported as many as 15 “daughter cells” budded within one “mother cell” and then broke out of the adult cell. That was clearly a process of replication. In normal Earth biology, replication requires the presence of DNA. But Dr. Louis could not find evidence of DNA in the multiplying cells in his test tubes.
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Eight months ago, in January of 2006, Dr. Louis contacted astrobiologist, Chandra Wickramasinghe, now at Cardiff University in Wales. Soon Prof. Wickramasinghe had some vials of the red rainwater to study and sent some to biologists at Sheffield University in England. America’s Cornell University also received some red rain samples to analyze isotopic ratios. Elements confirmed so far are hydrogen, silicon, oxygen, carbon, and aluminum. But, there still is no definitive confirmation of DNA, or what makes the cell walls red.
This month on August 7 to 8, I was in the Microbiology Lab at Cardiff University to see the red rainwater for myself and to talk with Prof. Wickramasinghe and his graduate student, Nori Miyake. Nori has tried to break open the cells to amplify whatever DNA might be there. Nori showed me the pale pink rainwater in test tubes. You can see photographs at my news website, www.Earthfiles.com. At the top of the Headlines page is a hot link to this red rain report with photographs and microscopic images.
Nori told me he has never seen such thick, hard cell walls, which he could only partially penetrate. He is concerned about contamination in the fluorescent techniques he tried, which indicate there might be DNA. But in his fluorescent research, there have been variables, which might be false positives. He does not even know if he ever extracted anything from the red cells because the walls were so thick and hard to break.
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I think it will be interesting to see how quickly, slowly, with what levels of resistence different spheres of the Unholy See of evolution surrenders to some of the alternative explanations without tolerating any support of ID.
Certainly the change is coming. The globalists will shift the 'science,' if nothing else. The impersonal evolutionary explanation fits their goals only up to a point. At some point, they will most likely have to shift the explanation to something like panspermia etc. I figure doing so will be necessary to fit their arising scenarios and contentions "requiring" the world to submit to a global government.
It seems to me that the mathematician's calculations in support of ID or some such are much more solid; simple, clean, much more in keeping with Occam's Razor etc. than any other explanation.
Thank you so very much for your excellent essay/post, FreedomProtector -- and for the link!
So, what, I wonder, is the mechanism that overcomes the 2nd law and causes the formation of so much order and complexity over such a vast amount of space for such long periods of time?
Perhaps the evolutionists could answer that. But oh wait, that's not part of the ToE. Can't answer that one.
We observe many things happening on earth that result in a local lowering of entropy, many of these things are triggered by "natural forces" such as heat and light. When the foundation of a person's argument is the denial of these readily observable phenomenon, the rest of their argument fails, being built upon sand.