No Moon, no life on Earth, suggests theory

NewScientist.com ^ | 18 March, 2004

[Kerberos]

"My GUANO detector is hitting the higher frequencies with this story. Pure BS"

Yeah to think that some people actually beleive in evolution. Where do they come up with these people.

[Lawgvr1955]

The current rate of recession is approximately 4 cm per year. Plus the sun is slowly expanding and the earth's rotation is slowing, causing the day to be longer. Remember the old adage, nothing last forever.

[GeronL]

I didn't say anything about evolution. I am referring to giving the moon credit for the start of life. THATS plain silly.

[Ken H]

Actually, they were talking about Christopher Cross' musical careear. After all, without the moon, what else would you be stuck between with New York City.

That is certainly a possibility.

If I'm not mistaken, it is believed that there used to be a river on the moon. It was wider than a mile.

[Auntie Dem]

"...nothing last forever.

Forever lasts forever. ;^)

[Auntie Dem]

now they argue that the moon is responsible for life?

Maybe it was the Moon God

[socal_parrot]

Below is the Mayan Moon God Tanah,

It is available for $150 from www.awrem.com.

[ASA Vet]

Even if there was water on Mars, life could not have evolved there

And when they find just one small fossil found there?

[Virginia-American]

Information is never self-generated, nor can "matter" generate information.

Why not?

How did the information about how to metabolize nylon arise? Analysis shows that the nylon-eating bugs are a single base pair mutation different from the wild (carbohydrate-eating) bugs.

Mutation occurs in nylon-free environment (eg before the '30s) : bacterium dies
Mutation occurs in nylon-rich environment : bacterium flourishes, reproduces. It's 'discovered' a new, totally-unoccupied, niche.

So where did the information come from? It seems to me it came from the environment to the genome. Self-geenerated by matter.

[Consort]

[LiteKeeper]

PLease check this out

Bacteria that will eat your stockings?

That depends on what your definition of ‘information’ is

[Kerberos]

"I didn't say anything about evolution. I am referring to giving the moon credit for the start of life. THATS plain silly."

Not any sillier than creationism.

[Lawgvr1955]

Forever lasts forever.

Whoa!! Dude!! You're freakin' me out, man.

[VadeRetro]

Another abiogenesis theory (and the Luddites are in full screech mode).

[PatrickHenry]

PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[Mamzelle]

re: A billion years later when life is thought to have arisen)))

You can't ever write these sorts of articles without heavy use of the passive voice combined with vague references to an ungraspable passage of time--

But you particularly need the passive voice to imply that such assumptions are sorta really kinda actually (Hans Vavink ) beyond question except for knuckle-dragging fundamentalists...

And somebody please write this guy a nice research grant...

Hey, Pat, did we ever get those new fruit flies?

[Larry Lucido]

We Like The Moon.

[PatrickHenry]

The role of the moon has been discussed before: Rare Earth.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[RadioAstronomer]

My GUANO detector is hitting the higher frequencies with this story. Pure BS

Well kinda. If you look at the Earth's tilt in reference to the ecliptic plane, the Moon seems to have played a large part in keeping it stable. This of course causes the seasons we have. Without the Moon, life may be far different that what we have today.