Asteroids May Have Brought Sugar to Earth

CBNobi writes: "An article over at space.com reports of sugar-like substances contained in meteorite found on earth. This discovery may support the theory that life on earth was seeded from outer space."

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Re:There seems to be a step missing

[Mr. Slippery]

Without a creator deity (let's call him God), you can't explain eternal life. Oops, I forgot, you probably don't believe in that either.

No, I don't, but the questions are quite orthagonal. Creator god(ess)(es/s) still wouldn't explain the continuity of psychology after bodily death, because we still have to explain the existance of the creator.

Saying "X was created by Y" leads to the question "So what created Y?" If your answer is "Y is eternal", why not skip the middleman and asusme that X is eternal in the first place?

And if there is no God and no eternal life, why worry about morals? There would be no right and no wrong? The biggest dog eats the most, might make right, etc.

I don't worry about morals at all. Consult any Zen master or Taoist sage for further enlightenment.

I just try to act compassionately, simply because it suits me to do so - not out of any fear of "eternal damnation" or "the wrath of god(ess)(es/s)", but because my experience is that it leads to less suffering. Metaphysics has nothing to do with it; speculations about some process whereby the fiction "I" call "my self" might continue after this body dies, don't help me figure out how to live this life at all.