An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere

American Scientist ^ | September-October 2001 | Armand H. Delsemme

[SunkenCiv]

Abstract: The young Earth appear to have been bombarded by comets for several hundred million years shortly after it was formed. This onslaught, perhaps involving hundreds of millions of comet impacts, is currently the best explantion for the origin of the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and organic molecules. Although historically a controversial idea, there is now a considerable amount of physical and chemical evidence supporting the theory. Comet scientist Armand Delsemme reviews the evidence and argues that comets from the vicinity of Jupiter contributed the bulk of the constituents found in Earth’s biosphere.

[SunkenCiv]

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[hiredhand]

Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

...then just following this in Genesis, we are told exactly how the oceans were formed.

Oh how godless intellectuals get on my last nerve....mainly because other people are stupid enough to fund them at my expense!

[SunkenCiv]

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The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself by Louis A. Frank with Patrick Huyghe

Sigwarth and I analyzed over 10,000 images and learned a good deal about the black spots in the process. Our interpretation of the events continued to involve meteor impacts into Earth's upper atmosphere.By counting the spots in our images we were able to estimate the rate at which these objects appeared. This was the simplest measurement to do. We saw ten holes per minute on the daylight side of Earth. So we doubled that figure to obtain the rate of these objects over the entire face of Earth. There had to be about twenty such objects entering the atmosphere every minute. That was an alarming number of objects.

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[HawkeyeLonewolf]

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

“Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

“Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.”

“Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry [land] appear"; and it was so. And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that [it was] good. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb [that] yields seed, [and] the fruit tree [that] yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed [is] in itself, on the earth"; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb [that] yields seed according to its kind, and the tree [that] yields fruit, whose seed [is] in itself according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.”

“Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; "and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. [He made] the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that [it was] good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”

“Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens." So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”

“Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, [each] according to its kind"; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.”

“Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His [own] image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."”

“And God said, "See, I have given you every herb [that] yields seed which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. "Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for food"; and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed [it was] very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:1-31 NKJV)

Works for God, works for me...and it fits all the evidence too.

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[BipolarBob]

Genesis is the best explanation of mankind and our ecosystem.

[Dead Corpse]

Actually, a cometary origin fits better with Odin slaying the Frost Giant.

[SunkenCiv]

Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials
by Max P. Bernstein,
Scott A. Sandford and
Louis J. Allamandola

A growing number of investigators, including our team at the Astrochemistry Laboratory at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, now believe that some important raw materials needed to build life also hitched a ride from space. Some of these extraterrestrial organic molecules formed leaky capsules that could have housed the first cellular processes. Other molecules could have absorbed part of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, thereby sheltering less hardy molecules, and could have helped convert that light energy into chemical food.

There is also the "Deep Hot Biosphere" model to consider. Impacts release so much energy that their main role in biology may be in providing mutations for life in situ, altering chemical environments, or delivering water to the Earth's surface. Microbes and amino acids etc which hypothetically may reside on a comet would be unlikely to survive the crash.

[SunkenCiv]

Findings on Fullerenes
New York Times
circa 1999

The soccer-ball-like nature of fullerenes, carbon molecules made up of 60 or more atoms, has intrigued scientists since the molecules were discovered in 1985. Among other things, their cagelike structure can trap gas molecules within Some scientists speculate that fullerenes in celestial objects like meteors or asteroids could have brought not only carbon but gases to Earth to play a role in the origin of life... [A] team of researchers has now found evidence of even larger molecules, with up to 400 carbon atoms, in samples of the Allende meteorite.

[P-Marlowe]

Seeing as how this commentary was written by a member of the biosphere, I would argue for the biospheric origin of the commentary rather than the other way around.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/rag18.htm

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[hiredhand]

Yep...I do believe it is. I bought into the evolutionist crap, and worshipped the ground Stephen Hawking rolled on for years.... but the problem is as with any bunch of leftists who have an agenda.... Eventually their lies catch up with them. And the media (of course) doesn't give the same attention to a leftist lie. They brush it off. That caused me to look into things a LITTLE closer.

Ah well... :-) Even the authors of the article will get to ask YWH exactly how it happened...if they can managed to mouth the words....stripped, trembling, and forced to one knee, before the throne of Adonai, on that Great and Terrible day.

I wonder how they're going to explain it away when 1/3 of these same oceans turn to blood? (Rev 8:8). I'm sure they'll spew some sort of nonsense about it.

THAT is gonna be ONE nasty event!

[hiredhand]

HA! HA! HA! I just NOW understood your tagline! LOL! Oh...I'm slow today! That's great :-)

[MacDorcha]

well, if you would like to get into the nitty gritty of which stories it fits, keep this in mind: to have a story survive would mean SOMEONE witnessed the story (or we had more advanced scientific research back then, which would still make for a Young Earth, as they all believed in one)

i think the simple fact that all but the Chinese got in on this type of Creation shows you something. you can either assume they all knew each other at one point, and made small changes over time (small, despite it being "tens of thousands of years") or they all witnessed something similar.

[Dead Corpse]

The human race has been involved in many cataclysms. Some local, some global. These events survive in our mythologies if we care to look. Changed over eons, certainly. But still there and still with things to teach us.

My entire point being that to say one story has more basis to reality than another is a bit premature at this point and may miss a greater truth altogether. A frozen ice comet has more to do with the Norse mythos of Ymir, a frost giant, than it does with the "firmament" being divided by divine edict.

As for who witnessed some of these events. In most of them, aren't they handed down by the Gods themselves? In all likelyhood, they were either made up from whole cloth, or mutated over generations from events that were old when our ancient myths were young.

Until we figure out a way to peer back through time and witness events first hand, all we can do is guess.

[Henchman]

From Olde Neppy eh! ...and where did that organic material come from¿

[HawkeyeLonewolf]

I'm not trying to make the original post fit a "story". I simply posted the truth of Creation as given by God.

[MacDorcha]

Just because it's the Truth, doesn't mean it wasn't paraphrased. Science and Genesis do not contradict each other, especially when you take into account just how abstract Greek is.

example: 7 days may not be the translation we were to understand, as a "yom" is simply a period of time, so it was 7 periods of time, not 7 days.

[HawkeyeLonewolf]

yom preceded by a number is ALWAYS a 24 hour period of time.

The Bible is clear: 6 literal days. Believe God's Word or not, that's what it clearly says.