Ya Think?
I have a slightly different theory about that.
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Posted on 09/02/2013 10:49:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That was a great movie. I only saw it once, and i never forgot it. (Hobb’s End...right?)
And if you are Italian: your wife is from Vino and you are from Marsala...
microgood: "This must have been before that bolt of lightning hit that primordial soup and out popped that billion molecule chain of highly organized DNA."
hulagirl: "Is it scientifically reproducible? Isn’t that how science works?
Have they zapped some ooze and gotten life yet?"
Despite the headline, what we're talking about here is oxidized molybdenum -- an element whose main human use is
That some molybdenum-containing meteors from Mars might land on Earth seems plausible.
That this particular molybdenum might be critical to life's origins seems highly debatable.
That such molybdenum itself is some form of "life from Mars" is totally impossible.
As for reproducing life's origins in a scientific laboratory: be careful what you wish for.
Eventually there will be a plausible "standard model" recognized (step 1, step 2, step 3.... step 9,879, etc), of which several steps can be reproduced in labs, and each year or two somebody will announce they've added yet another step.
It will all be very exciting, just as DNA analysis reports are today.
At some point they will say 10% of the steps have been reproduced, then a few years later 20%, etc.
And some of these steps can be matched directly to the geological record, especially the beginnings of photosynthesis, where oxygen was first produced and iron oxides begin to deposit in similar strata around the world.
But regardless of how complete their "standard model" is or is not, the fact remains that for believers, that was all according to God's original plan, and may well have been helped along by His timely interventions (aka "miracles") throughout.
The demise of dinosaurs comes to mind...
Great Movie. A class act Actor. Mr. Sinese.
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Did you hear about the award he just got?
While this theory explains how life came to Earth, you still have to explain how life evolved SOMEWHERE.
I vote for the Twelve Colonies.
We came here on the Chariots of the Gods. Everybody knows that.
No, of course not, but it's a matter of word definitions as to when "complex chemistry" becomes "life".
There is no doubt that complex chemistry does develop in nature, given certain conditions.
And some complex chemistry can become even more complex under other conditions.
And we would not classify a simple series of complex molecules, in a membrane, that can somehow reproduce itself as "life", and yet that is how it begins.
Once you have complex molecules reproducing themselves, then there is an opportunity for errors and natural selection.
Well, people say, there's no way this could happen all at once -- statistical probabilities prevent it.
But, of course it didn't happen all at once, rather over billions of years, and if you calculate the numbers of reproductive events amongst single celled critters over all those years, it comes out to a number with about 45 zeros behind it.
So there was plenty of opportunity for whatever mutations necessary to turn "complex chemistry" into life.
Silly rabbits - we’ve known that for decades:
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