[nightdriver]

"NASA officials and scientists yesterday repeatedly stressed that additional missions, each more ambitious than the previous, will be needed to continue telling the story of Mars' watery past and to find out if life ever existed there."

It appears that the extremely dubious claim of the existence of water on Mars is being used to generate more funding for the space agency and its many layers of hangers-on.

There are many unanswered technical problems with the supposition of the evidence of water there. That doesn't seem to deter the drummed-up ethusiasm for trying to find the evidence of life there. If they can just make that claim, they think they can expound evolution and refute the creation.

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No need to go to mars to prove evolution. More than enough proof exists here on Earth.

However, it is interesting that creationists would use that as a counterargument to continued exploration of Mars. Perhaps they don't care to consider explaining whatever evidence could be found away?