Posted on 04/06/2008 7:15:15 AM PDT by decimon
I’m still going with the Marooned Space Alien theory.
It’s more colorful.
Let’s proceed that you are correct. If “scientists” are going to push their theories into the realm of faith (because it can’t be proved or reproduced) well that’s just religion, too. The Bible doesn’t say that’s how it happened. Whatever happened, happened here. If that’s my choice, I’ll simply go with God.
Well that was several years later. Before the meteorite hit in the dry still desert all my friends and I were just free floating subatomic particles. Suddenly we began to develop molecular structure and we were thankful for that. First we ate dust but in time we had dirt to eat. Mud followed and that was a real treat.
We didn’t have much but we were thankful for what we had. We knew many who had less and we shared as much as we could. In time we all were able to divide our cells and prosper.
The concept of building blocks of life, or even of life itself (panspermia) coming to earth from meteorites is not inconsistent with God creating life.
It is one of many possible mechanisms God could have used.
By U/Pb-Th/Pb isotope ratios it seems that meteors originiated concomitant with the Sun. Thus those scientists who will, are left with still having to thrash about to discern what God wrought. Though I doubt they ever will, since discovering life’s beginnings necessarily also means discovering its end.
Interesting hypothesis. The fact that the preponderance of amino acids found in those meteorites were of the left-sided type certainly suggests its a possibility. But, lets see where it goes from here.
These scientists are coming up with hypotheses based on evidence that they’re finding on meteorites or in the lab. Whether those hypotheses stand in the long run remains to be seen, as further experiments are carried out and new data is considered. That is how science works. Religion has nothing to do with it except that it seems to upset some people’s religious sensibilities that scientists have the audacity to actually tackle questions such as these in the first place.
'Splain me sometin':
Why would it be easier for amino acids to form on lifeless asteroids than on lifeless earth?
Is that what they are saying?
I thought they were pointing to the fact that left-handed amino acids dominate on the meteorites after their journey through space suggests that they may be responsible for the fact that they also dominate on earth, not necessarily that amino acids are more likely to form in space.
But I am not a biochemist and I only quickly read the article, so I will bow to anyone else’s superior knowledge!
Or the Adam and Eve story as literal history?
Question: What goes clip-clop, clip-clop, BANG clip-clop, clip-clop.
Answer: An Amish meteorite.
Fewer distractions?
I don't know but according to the article the amino acids were there but...well, here is from the article:
These amino acids “seeds” formed in interstellar space, possibly on asteroids as they careened through space. At the outset, they have equal amounts of left and right-handed amino acids. But as these rocks soar past neutron stars, their light rays trigger the selective destruction of one form of amino acid. The stars emit circularly polarized light—in one direction, its rays are polarized to the right. 180 degrees in the other direction, the star emits left-polarized light.
Probably to lead people away from the truth.
What is the truth?
Genesis, chapters 1 and 2, mostly. This author has never lied.
It’s not a stupid postulation, just far fetched.
Saying God created life is not a process. Scientists are concerned with the chemical compounds and how they might have occurred in nature. BTW- Maybe God made the comet hit the Earth and a bolt of lighteneing....
The big bang can’t be proven either. If scientists trying to expalin life in chemical and mechanical terms, just add “God caused” to every scientific hypothesis you read. Truth is we don’t know why opposite charges attract or what causes gravity. We just witness and measure the pheneomena.
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