[onedoug]

I've been interested in the origins of life for some time, so this seemed very interesting to me. However, evidence for this from meteorites has only yielded prebiotic materials with the controversial possible exception of Allan Hills 84001.

This latest information though, would seem to indicate mateorite transfer to Earth as a strengthened possibility.

[Lazamataz]

I’m lichen it!

[Kartographer]

“I’ve been interested in the origins of life for some time, so this seemed very interesting to me.”

If you are that interested I suggest that you read Genesis.

The world-renowned crusader for Darwinism and atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins, states:

‘We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance.’

http://creation.com/is-there-really-a-god-how-would-you-answer

[microgood]

The only thing I got out of it is that lichen can survive in space for a certain amount of time. Anything beyond that is just speculation.

[Vendome]

They might survive space but no way they’d live through two magazines of standing.45 silver rounds

[Mister Da]

If Earth life can survive in space, so can alien life; & the origins of life on Earth & the Universe could be far, far away.

[Sawdring]

n contrast, the space samples endured the full power of the Sun's rays. The samples were insulated somewhat by the Space Station but still had to cope with temperatures changing from -12ºC to +40ºC over 200 times as they orbited Earth. Wow, they survived in temperatures of ten degrees Fahrenheit to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. I would like to read the paper this piece was written about.

[TexasFreeper2009]

um... I think any lichen attached to anything would burn up entering the atmosphere.

And plus this silly explanation doesn't explain the origin of life... it's just a cop out by saying it must have started elsewhere.

[calex59]

Claiming that life came here from someone where else on an asteroid does not prove the “origin of life”. It would still leave the question of how did the life come into being before it attached to the asteroid. The theory of life coming here from somewhere else is a cheap attempt at misdirection to stop the questions about the origin of life, which evolutionists can’t answer. They hoped this would shut people up.