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Gamma-Ray Bursts Limit Life in Universe
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 10-27-14 | Brian Thomas

Posted on 10/28/2014 8:53:13 AM PDT by fishtank

Gamma-Ray Bursts Limit Life in Universe

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

What are the odds that life somehow self-generated? Many experiments have shown that the likelihood of just the right chemicals combining by chance in just the right proportions, orientations, and sequences to form even the simplest cell on Earth is so close to zero that some origin-of-life researchers have punted the possibility to some distant unknown planet.1 But a new study of gamma-ray burst frequency estimates has eliminated the possibility of life on other planets.

Astronomers have witnessed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)—lasting from just fractions of a millisecond to several minutes—as the brightest explosions in the universe. The blasts' lethal energy output shreds any nearby biological molecules, whether in a functioning organism or somewhere in a planet's environment.

(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; bullcrap; creation; gamma; horsepucky; notanewstopic
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1 posted on 10/28/2014 8:53:13 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: fishtank

Assuming that biology is earth-like in nature.

Would it shred an angel apart?


2 posted on 10/28/2014 8:55:55 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: fishtank
Everything can be explained by science on Earth.
3 posted on 10/28/2014 8:56:13 AM PDT by eizverson22
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To: fishtank

Everything ever stated by anyone is absolutely untrue.


4 posted on 10/28/2014 8:59:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: eizverson22

Absolutely nothing can be explained by anyone anywhere ever.


5 posted on 10/28/2014 9:00:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: fishtank

It’s a lot easier to believe that an intelligent Creator did it all, than to believe we just happened by accident..................


6 posted on 10/28/2014 9:02:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Lazamataz

For all its intelligence and knowledge, ‘science’ cannot create a single living, functioning, reproducing cell from dead matter.................


7 posted on 10/28/2014 9:04:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: eizverson22
Everything can be explained by science on Earth.

Everything can be explained by Hollywood celebrities............

8 posted on 10/28/2014 9:05:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
Science can create the badger.
9 posted on 10/28/2014 9:08:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: fishtank
Wouldn't a CRB only wipe out life on at most half the planet?

10 posted on 10/28/2014 9:08:18 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: fishtank

According to the site we should not even be able to detect Gamma Ray bursts as the closest one detected is 130 MM light years away. But I know the answer to that is the science behind measuring distances across the universe is somehow bunk too.


11 posted on 10/28/2014 9:14:47 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Lazamataz
Everything ever stated by anyone is absolutely untrue.

Including that statement. LOL!

12 posted on 10/28/2014 9:18:14 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Lazamataz

THAT’S NOT TRUE.


13 posted on 10/28/2014 9:18:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: Lazamataz
Hehe...I remember when you first posted that vid here years ago. Good stuff.

"Wait until you see the end" you said.

14 posted on 10/28/2014 9:23:22 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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To: Red Badger

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Robert Jastrow, in “God and the Astronomers


15 posted on 10/28/2014 9:24:20 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: fishtank

Hulk smash puny Gamma Radiation Humans!

16 posted on 10/28/2014 9:25:30 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: fishtank

Totally false statements, utter garbage.


17 posted on 10/28/2014 9:26:56 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: fishtank

Improbability<>impossibility.

But thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts.


18 posted on 10/28/2014 9:27:37 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: fishtank

From the article this is based on:
“There is a very good chance (but no certainty) that at least one lethal GRB took place during the past 5 Gyr close enough to Earth as to significantly damage life. There is a 50% chance that such a lethal GRB took place during the last 500 Myr causing one of the major mass extinction events.”

“Lethal” is defined as “life-threatening (lethal) GRB”. It does not mean to kill every living thing, only able to kill something.

The ICR article says this:
“Two astronomers, Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Tsvi Piran and University of Barcelona’s Raul Jimenez, found that GRBs should have repeatedly sterilized most places in the universe, every so often annihilating any chemical concoction that may have been headed toward life. The new report appears in the online repository arXiv.org.2”

The article by the astronomers says nothing like that.


19 posted on 10/28/2014 9:29:16 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: ShadowAce
Everything ever stated by anyone is absolutely untrue.

Including that statement. LOL!

But you state a truth but that cannot be true so it is not true and... *zoink*

20 posted on 10/28/2014 9:30:13 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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