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Test Equipment Finds Life In Mars-like Conditions
DIY News writes "In a test of equipment that might one day be used to search for biological activity on Mars, researchers discovered life tucked deep inside a frozen Norwegian volcano, a test region said to have geology similar to that of Mars. The test instruments discovered a rare and complex microbial community living in blue ice vents inside a frozen volcano, which is the kind of evidence scientists have been searching for on the Red Planet."
Unfortunately a lot of these researchers seem to think that
just because something can survive in hostile conditions it
could have evolved in similar conditions elsewhere. As far as
we can tell life on earth evolved in failry benign conditions
(warm seas, plenty of mineral nutrients etc) and then moved
out to the less hospitable places later. If the whole earth
had been dry volcanic craters with little or no water what do
you reckon the odds on lfe ever evolving would be? Right, probably
next to nothing. So just because something could *possibly*
survive on Mars that sur as hell doesn't mean anything even as
complex as a bacterium could ever evolve there.
"Anybody who lets their religion get in the way of their understanding of the universe"
If believing in evolution requires one to have "faith" that Macro Evolution (changing from one kind to another, cat to dog) happens, why doesn't this fall under "religion?" It is definately NOT science.
Science is supposed to be open to new theories, new ideas. Testing and retesting. But how can someone say "We found it here, so that's proof that it happens there."
This article asumes that the volcano has always been frozen, it asumes that the volcano has always been tall, or even there forever.
Would it not be possible that the volcanoe used to be shorter? Can't it also be considered that when it was shorter, that animals may have lived on it?
Why can't it be looked at from diferent angles? Evolotionist commonly take only one view, and say all the others are not science, when in fact the view they pick is only from the sidelines.
If Evolutionists were to coach a game of football against an NFL coaching staff. NFL would stomp. Not because they know what they are doing, it's because they have coaches on the field, at the corners, up in the stands, even in boxes at the top of the stadium. Why? Because they can see the whole picture. A coach takes all the angles, picks the best one, and puts it into action.
While the evilutionist stands on the sidelines, all of em bunched together, looking at the same view. "We only see it this way, so it HAS to work. Let's make it a theory, and if anyone disagrees, we'll tell them they aren't educated."
Why can't they just look at the other views, and use common sense to pick the best plan of action?
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