Posted on 05/07/2021 8:38:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Well for Christians...1 Corinthians13:9 “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Take that how you will
Instead of everyone going after the opinion of the unqualified science reporter, let’s go after the original paper:
Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rhawn-Joseph/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images/links/60955e5792851c490fc34e1e/Fungi-on-Mars-Evidence-of-Growth-and-Behavior-From-Sequential-Images.pdf
Why oh why are we supplying mars with helicopters???
The photos are legitimate NASA images. If you take the time to look at the original photos, its clear that there are seasonal changes. So how to account for those regular changes?
The journal that the article appears in is: Advances in Microbiology, vol 11, # 5. May 2021, and is heavily footnoted.
The original authors (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rhawn-Joseph/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images/links/60955e5792851c490fc34e1e/Fungi-on-Mars-Evidence-of-Growth-and-Behavior-From-Sequential-Images.pdf) call them fungi-like, and make a comparison to Earthly fungi which they obviously cannot be; therefore, IT uses a different mechanism to advance and retreat, shrink and grow, expand and deflate.
They document a slime-like, amorphous shape-changing, mold that moves away from its original position frame by frame. What does that indicate?
Its possible, that while the authors call what they see as a fungi-like organism, it could well be that the fungi uses a lichen in symbiosis; IT could well be abiogenic - who’s to say? The paper says, “It is possible these specimens consist of minerals or other non-biological substances” and goes on to say, “However, if these tangled webs of strands consist of quartz or gypsum this does not rule out biology,” and then goes on to list several known Earthly organisms that are similar.
The thing about aliens is that they are alien.
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Their conclusions:
It is well established that a variety of terrestrial organisms survive Mars-like conditions. Given the likelihood Earth has been seeding Mars with life and life has been repeatedly transferred between worlds (Beech et al. 2018; Joseph et al. 2019; 2020c; Schulze-Makuch et al. 2005), it would be surprising if there was no life on Mars.
However, in contrast to terrestrial organisms, Martian fungi, lichens, moulds, algae and other putative life-forms, would have evolved on and already be adapted to the low temperatures, intermittent availability of water, low amounts of free oxygen, and high levels of radiation that characterize the harsh Martian environment. Almost all scientists who have searched for current or past life on Mars, have reported positive findings.
What would be surprising is if there was no life on Mars. Positive findings include reports of biological activity and specimens that closely resemble fossilized domical stromatolites, bacterial mats, algae, tube worms, and metazoans; bacterial residue in Martian meteorites; and a host of what may be living fungi, algae, lichens, mould.
We have now presented sequential photographs of specimens that emerge from the soil, grow, change shape multiply or move to different locations and disappear; donut shapes resembling the lichen genus Ochrolechia and “milkcap mushrooms” and “donut” shaped Russulas; networks of white specimens resembling plasmodium, bulbous fruiting sporangia and interconnected clumps and sphericals - all of which may have become rigid, encrusted, calcified upon exposure to the surface; as well as specimens resembling puffballs with stalks or shedding what appears to be crustose and which are surrounded by white powder-chunky-leprose-spore-like material that also consists of what appears to be embryonic multi-open-tubular and stemmed mushroom-like formations; and statistical evidence that specimens in the arctic are growing in parallel, and that equatorial spherical specimens resembling fungal puffballs grow out of the ground, expanded in size and diameter, and grew closer together.
Similarities in morphology are not proof of life. It is possible that all the specimens presented here are abiotic. We cannot completely rule out minerals, weathering, and unknown geological forces that are unique to Mars and unknown and alien to Earth. However, growth, movement, alterations in location and shape, constitute behavior, and coupled with life-like morphology, strongly support the hypothesis there is life on Mars.
Okay, so something from “The Next Web” is the rebuttal to “Coast to Coast AM”
The crazy vs. the crazy
Excitement over this discovery is mushrooming.
I assume Fauci is included in the list of hacks.
Mushrooms on Mars report sounds like someone has been eating mushrooms.
“Take that how you will”
Take what? You didn’t even say anything - you just copy/pasted a bunch of random bible quotes. LOL.
It was one answer to your questions about religious people pretending to know things when they don’t. Many do such pretending. I actually agreed with your posting by the way. It is okay to admit to not knowing things that God may or may not have done including life on other planets.
Sorry. Maybe I misunderstood .. :-)
I cited the verse only because for Christians there are things we don’t know, there are things we do know for certain and other things we only have a partial glimpse of for now. Another verse says “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.*(atoms and molecules anyone...quantum entanglement strings?).
So I’m sorry, I meant no offense to you. Have a good week-end.
You seem like a very nice person.
I wish you only the best!
-e
In any case, if that singer had asked me to eat the mushrooms, I very well might have said 'Yes'!
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