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Meteorites May Have Delivered Seeds of Life On Earth
esocid writes "At the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists presented evidence today that desert heat, a little water, and meteorite impacts may have been enough to cook up one of the first prerequisites for life. The result of that brew could be the dominance of "left-handed" amino acids, the building blocks of life on this planet. Chains of amino acids make up the protein found in people, plants, and all other forms of life on Earth. There are two orientations of amino acids, left and right, which mirror each other in the same way your hands do. These amino acids "seeds" formed in interstellar space, possibly on asteroids as they careened through space. At the outset, they have equal amounts of left and right-handed amino acids. But as these rocks soar past neutron stars, their light rays trigger the selective destruction of one form of amino acid."
As a believer in Christ, I have long believed that the next step in anti-Christ science would be a "space seed theory". This is no surprise to me. However, I think that ultimately pseudo-scientists will adopt a "theory" that man was placed here by beings from another world. But we may be a few years away from that... we'll have to wait and see.
So far in my lifetime I have watched as science is sullied by self-proclaimed experts who make hypothesis into theory by virtue of their position in the community. And ultimately, those same self-promoted theories into fact, by the same rule. Experimentation and observation have died. I think today's scientists watch too much of the Sci-Fi Channel. It's easier to make things up than try to have meaningful discussion (or do actual work). Creation scientists are automatically discarded simply because of prejudice... not because of evidence. It's a shame. True scientists, whether they be anti-Christ or not, use experimentation and observation to support hypothesis... and not necessarily to define exact truth, but so that the pursuit of truth isn't marred by self-promotion or sensationalism.
I know, I know... "He's a creationist... shoot him and let his god sort him out." Sure... I expect nothing less from the majority of the "open minded" participants here. But perhaps there are still some that are truly open minded here.
They're left over Bolognese sauce from the creation of everything by his Noodliness.
Or they're God's precum.