Posted on 03/12/2013 10:27:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
If I read your post correctly,
you’re asserting that darwinists are firm in their assertions that life has to originate on Earth?
I would say it’s the opposite. In order to “prove” evolution, they’d want to show that if it happened here, it could happen elsewhere, and ET life of any sort would show that.
Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one.
Thus, this explanation holds the most water:
“A long ago asteroid impact could have ejected rocks and water with biological material into space.”
Darwinists reject all ideas that contradict their common origin thesis.
“”If I read your post correctly,
youre asserting that darwinists are firm in their assertions that life has to originate on Earth?””
“I would say its the opposite. In order to prove evolution, theyd want to show that if it happened here, it could happen elsewhere, and ET life of any sort would show that.”
Evolution and the origin of life are 2 different things.
But, just to try to remain true to the theory,
couldn’t there be a “common origin” on another planet, “common” being common to that planet,
whilst all life here is “common” to this planet.
I would think that would strengthen the veracity of the theory instead of weaken it.
If they could show that it happened elsewhere, by chance & “deep time”, then that would show that it was possible here as well.
Indeed, evolutionists shy far away from the origins issue,
and extrapolate observed adaptation into something they don’t observe.
> ... carried space algae.
So that’s where libs come from.
"In this book, Fred Hoyle expresses an opinion which is rejected by most other scientists. He claims that all of life on our planet is descended from microbes which arrived in a meteor shower. Although other scientists say that a microbe could not survive the hot temperature which results from entering the atmosphere, Hoyle argues to the contrary."
The gentleman in India is always adament about life coming from space but he's part of a broader array of scientific thought. That's the one that argues that life on Earth simply isn't unique ~ that if life occurs anywhere it's going to depend pretty much on the same basic chemistry, and it's probably part of the natural process of star formation that life manages to get its start.
Consequently if we get viruses or bacteria from space they'll look remarkably like the ones we already have, and BTW, has anyone found all the viruses on this planet? The answer there is that we haven't, and yet the most cursory examination of the first foot of ocean water is that there are MILLIONS of viruses we haven't the foggiest notion about.
I think I went over to the panspermia idea when reports of exotic bacteria living in rocks deep in the Earth were confirmed. If life came from space it was pretty obvious it ought to be living in rocks buried deep under the surface.
That's a pretty big leap from fossils which may have microorganisms to saying that's how life on Earth happened. I'm sensing a request for, for, for Grant money, that's it, yes, that's what I hear the voices in my head telling me.
Occasionally you'll hear one of these guys say he's not a "darwinist" ~ which allows him to ponder just what is going on in epigenetics and methylation, and how that may be at the root of the whole DNA mutation business.
http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/labs/WerrenLab/WerrenPapers-PDF/1998_Werren_WolbSpeciation.pdf ~ I put in this paper from 15 years ago because this is the discovery that put the sword to Sexual Selection as the root cause of specieation in mammals and bugs.
31 posts and not one of Donald Sutherland.
1. The rock has not been shown to have any connection to the meteor in question. The rock has never even been identified as a meteorite, and does not appear to be a meteorite.
2. The diatoms aren’t fossilized and are local to the area where the rock was found. That is, these are earthly diatoms.
3. The publication is well-known for publishing reports that don’t pass muster for publication in accepted scientific journals.
There’s a fire....
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If true, this is VERY significant. Like, one of the greatest discoveries .......ever?
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