H.S. For Sunday 072708

Great news for Scifi fans and Atheists

Hey folks,

In the Health and Science segment this week, we look at Evolution once again. I keep saying that it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it actually takes to believe in God. The biggest and most fundamental problem with evolution is where the first something came from. It is impossible, as we all know, to have something come from nothing. So there had to be a source of the first something to form life.

Then you have to believe, have faith in, you have to believe that all things came from the first something. The most common theory is the first something was a single cell organism. From that, we got warm blooded, cold blooded, tress, flowers, birds, fish, people, ETC. DNA proves that this is impossible. But none the less.

So NOW a group of Scientists are claiming that not only are they a girls best friend, but may have played a major part in life itself. Yup. Diamonds. According to LiveScience.com - Diamonds May Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth by Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Managing Editor

One of the greatest mysteries in science is how life began. Now one group of researchers says diamonds may have been life's best friend.

Scientists have long theorized that life on Earth got going in a primordial soup of precursor chemicals. But nobody knows how these simple amino acids, known to be the building blocks of life, were assembled into complex polymers needed as a platform for genesis.

Or where the first one came from.

Diamonds are crystallized forms of carbon that predate the oldest known life on the planet. In lab experiments aimed to confirm work done more than three decades ago, researchers found that when treated with hydrogen, natural diamonds formed crystalline layers of water on the surface. Water is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions needed to generate the first birth.

When primitive molecules landed on the surface of these hydrogenated diamonds in the atmosphere of early Earth, a few billion years ago, the resulting reaction may have been sufficient enough to generate more complex organic molecules that eventually gave rise to life, the researchers say.

The only problem is this. Where did the atmosphere come from?

The research, by German scientists Andrei Sommer, Dan Zhu, and Hans-Joerg Fecht at the University of Ulm, is detailed in the Aug. 6 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal Crystal Growth & Design. Funding was provided by the Landesstiftung Baden-Wurttemberg Bionics Network.

Another theory, called panspermia, holds that life on Earth arrived from space, as organisms rained down inside tiny meteors or giant comets.

OK folks. So if this theory is correct. Life HAS to exist in Space. Would this NOT then lead to MORE of a reason to explore? We should be building an "Enterprise" type of ship to go and explore new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before. Right? If we are actually all aliens, then we should be searching for our Parents in the final frontier. But again, where did our atmosphere come from able to host this life that landed here?

The new research does not conclusively determine how life began, but it lends support to one possible way.

Of course, that is impossible.

"Hydrogenated diamond advances to the best of all possible origin-of-life platforms," the researchers contend.

Not until you can establish where the trees that produce oxygen, water to produce life, and all the other elements needed for this theory to have ANY credibility at all.

Sorry folks, it really is this simple. Nothing from nothing is nothing. Nothing to nothing is nothing. Lets say the first something DID come form space. That is still assuming that there was SOMETHING here to help it grow, change, and produce all that you see. Where did THAT come from?

Like I said, I find it takes a lot more faith to believe in Evolution than it does to believe that GOD, a very real something, CREATED all that you see and put it here FOR us. But believe what you will. Although, I would love to be on that first Starship. {Smile}
Peter

Sources:
LiveScience.com - Diamonds May Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth