Comet Hale Bopp. Comets have always fascinated us. A mysterious appearance could symbolize God's displeasure or mean a sure failure in battle, at least for one side. Now new research justifies our fascination -- comets might have provided the elements for the emergence of life on our planet. (Credit: iStockphoto/Michael Puerzer)
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Man, these guys are really reaching. They will go to just about any lengths to prove their religion.
They have all the answers but yet cannot even answer the most basic questions on the orgins of life.
In a word?
No.
It was the chemical composition of comets, Prof. Bar-Nun believes, that allowed them to kickstart life. He has published his theory widely in scientific journals, including recently in the journal Icarus.
Already reached the status of scientific theory has it? What's all this nonsense about reproducibility, experimentation, duplication, and falsifiability then?
I once owned a Comet. It was from Mercury and it too crashed into the earth leaving behind trace elements of front fender.
Where did the "Earth's primordial soup" come from..hmmmmm???
Did these large, complex, organic molecules, and biomolecules supposedly making up this primordial soup just willy-nilly synthesize themselves from inorganic precursers for no particular reason?
And even if complex organic molecules did synthesize themselves (doubtful given the stoichiometry/kinetics/thermodynamics involved) why wouldn't they just degrade and detoriate in a few days, weeks, or months like all modern organics do?
Just curious because someone should really explain how this "primordial soup" starting material got here.
Did earth?
“... they delivered a payload of organic materials to the young Earth, adding materials that combined with Earth’s own large reservoir of organics and led to the emergence of life,” says Prof. Bar-Nun.
Comets had duct tape? Who knew.
