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Biological Activity on Mars
visination.com writes "Recent ground based observations of Mars have confirmed the presence of water and methane. The 300 year life time of methane on Mars is short, giving scientists reason to beleive that Mars may be biologically active." From the article: "Every one of these longitudes shows a very substantial enhancement in the equatorial zone...So this is a very intense source of methane on Mars in this region. It also requires a very rapid decay of methane...more rapid than photochemistry would allow..."
You know this eliminates the possibility of terraforming Mars, don't you. We'll have "Save the microbe" campaigns every time a mission is sent there.
Nah, just call it "Operation Martian Freedom" and mumble something about terrorists, and everyone will be right behind it.
The Bible doesn't talk about other planets, except that there are stars and that they are created and move according to God's will. It is silent on whether or not there is more than just the race of humanity. All we know about is ourselves and our own history.
The one theory that was unacceptable hundreds of years ago but is more and more plausible today goes something like this.
(1) God is an infinite God.
(2) This earth is a finite earth - IE, definite beginning and end, limited scope.
(3) An infinite God cannot be satisfied with a finite creation. After all, to an infinite being, everything finite is nothing. Creating a single earth would be about as meaningful as doing nothing. We cannot imagine an intelligent God that does things without meaning or purpose (because lacking meaning and purpose is also a lack of intelligence).
(4) However, if God creates an infinite number of worlds, then it will be significant and meaningful and purposeful to an infinite God.
(5) Therefore, God is engaged in a process of creating worlds without end, and we are merely one of the worlds he has created and are not unique. This is the only logically consistant reasoning.
There are scriptures that seem to support this concept. For instance, we know that God is eternal and unchanging. How can this be if His sole earthly creation is definitely not eternal and unchanging? It makes more sense that He continually creates these worlds.
If you believe this idea, then it will be quite easy to accept that there was either at one point life on Mars, or there will be at one point life on Mars, or that there is life on Mars even as we speak. In fact, all planets at one point in their history may have been earths like our very own. (The concept of solar construction -- which is supported by direct observation! -- seems to support this. All planets grow and accumulate matter over time.) We know from observations here on earth that God's creations are not purposeless. Why have planets that are barren and pointless when they can just as easily be used for other things?
It also explains why there is an infinite expanse in the heavens with an infinite number of stars and apparently an infinite number of planets orbiting those stars. An infinite God would need that many planets to keep himself from going insane with boredom.
What I believe is more interesting is how evolutionists will explain how evolution occured on two planets within the same solar system. I can understand evolutionists imagining that somewhere in the expanse of the cosmos there are other planets with evolved life, but to find such a case in the same solar system? Should we actually find this life, and determine that it is similar to life on earth, the evolutionists will be left trying to explain how life from earth travelled to Mars without spacecraft to carry it there. (There are plausible explanations for this.)
Creationists can easily explain it as being created on Mars by the same God that created it here.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
"While his contemporaries believed the world to be flat (along with science at the time), the prophet Isaiah spoke of "the circle of the earth"."
Now, let's all pretend a circle isn't really 2 dimensional and thus flat, while also ignoring that a SPHERE is three dimensional, in order to perpetuate the myth that the Bible holds any type of scientific weight at all.
Did you also know the babble also teaches us scientific facts such as the fact that the earth is immobile:
1 Chronicles 16:30 The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 96:10 The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved
Now surely if the baby jeebus' daddy said it 3 times, no less, it HAS to be true! Who needs education with science lessons like this?