Is it scientifically reproducible? Isn’t that how science works? Have they zapped some ooze and gotten life yet?
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...