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Study: Martian Soil Has Signs of Life

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-again dept.

geoffrobinson writes "Reuters is reporting that a scientist from Germany believes Viking probe data shows signs of life. From the article: "Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, said on Friday the spacecraft may in fact have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface. His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin.""

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  1. Re:Alien! by Hardhead_7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you, now that you've pointed out the reference, I expect to be modded up any minute now. I mean, it's a Futurama reference, and this is Slashdot. Free mod points, really. ;)

  2. Re:My answer by Trogre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, so we should keep looking into the cause of the universe when we know god caused it? That seems kinda contradictory. Either he didn't cause it or we should stop looking. Now take that back a few tens of hundreds of years... the sun rises every day. God did it, no need to study it. Hense the dark ages.

    Ummm... no.

    It's a given that God created the universe. Great, so we have the Who. There is good reason to believe that it was created for us (intelligent life) to live in, and us to worship Him. Great, so now we have the Why too. What we don't have much of is the How. That's where scientific discovery comes into it.

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  3. Re:IF its proven.. by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it means believing in God despite overwhelming evidence for His non existence What overwhelming evidence would that be? Please give a few examples.
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