Posted on 12/16/2010 5:53:58 AM PST by FatherofFive
Scientists have discovered amino acids, the building blocks of life in a meteorite where none were expected.
The finding adds evidence to the idea that some of life's key ingredients could have formed in space, and then been delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite impacts.
The meteorite in question was born in a violent crash, and eventually crashed into northern Sudan
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“The finding adds evidence to the idea that some of life’s key ingredients could have formed in space”
And where else where “they” theorizing “life’s key ingredients” may have formed?
D’OH! Just send me my PhD.
The Divine spark cannot come from a meteorite.
If this is so, we are all illegal aliens......
However, your PhD has been delayed due to a spelling error... ;-)
Need my coffee.
IIRC you can do a DNA test on an amino acid. Would be interesting to see what this one looked like (being from outer space and all that).
I was wondering about that. I just read your comment to my husband and asked if he thought you meant to say “does not.”
Your PhD is in the mail.............along with your tax cut................
excellent
I’ll use part of my tax cut to make a donation to the RNC
Now, back to panspermia!
Actually, no. Amino acids are some of the building blocks of which the DNA molecule is constructed.
DNA testing an amino acid would be like trying to start with a skin cell from somebody's fingertip and reconstruct a fingerprint from it...
...if I'm not completely off-base... biology isn't my strongest subject.
Life. God did it. I don’t know how and it doesn’t matter because He could have done it in any number of ways because God makes all ways. I don’t know when, or how long it took either, and those don’t matter because He also created time.
What’s a “surprising meteorite”?
At least violent impacts in the Sudan predate humanity.
NOT necessarily true.
It is more likely that a meteorite found on Earth, came from Earth to begin with, or from one of the planets in our own solar system.
I was wondering the same thing.
Ping
The key to protein formation is sequence: the right amino acids in the right order.
Taking sequence into account, the odds of a working protein forming randomly in space or on earth, even with the right amino acids, is effectively zero.
In addition to the correct amino acid appearing at the correct place in a sequence, there's the question of the right kind of bond forming between each amino acid, and the problem of each amino acid being "left-handed" as opposed to "right-handed." Once you factor all of these in, the odds do not favor formation from any sort of random process.
What’s a “surprising meteorite”?
It does something unexpected.
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