Panspermia9th International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life Meeting
7/12/1999 The meeting was held at UC San Diego the week of 7/12-7/16 (1999). This campus has a strong origin of life presence. Some of the workers in the field who are affiliated with UCSD are: Stanley Miller; Leslie Orgel; Gerald Joyce; Reza Ghadiri; Russell Doolittle; Jeffery Bada and Gustaf Arrhenius. Aliens From Another World? Getting Here From There
4/1/2001 A rising challenge to Christianity, both within and beyond the borders of America, springs from the popular obsession with UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and ETI (extraterrestrial intelligent life). Anybody Out There?
2/8/2008 Ever since childhood I have been fascinated with the idea that there are other intelligent beings living in outer space. At the age of seven, I heard about the crash of a flying saucer recovered on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. While my dad thought the whole thing was a bunch of foolishness, my friends and I had great fun imagining “Martinis” coming from Mars to visit our planet. We later learned they were called Martians. Astrology: Help, Hoax, or Harm?
1/1/1999 To unravel any possible confusion over what astrology is, I would like to begin by establishing what it is not. First, astrology is not science, though a number of its adherents claim it to be. How can I make such a strong statement? Consider the following points: Blind Faith Fuels Origin-of-life Quest: A Report on ISSOL '99
7/1/1999 The biological community’s mindlock on a natural-process origin of life seems to hold, but its irrationality becomes increasingly obvious with time. Hugh Ross and I made this observation as we spent time recently among some of the most distinguished scholars in the origin-of-life ranks at the combined 12th International Conference on the Origin of Life and the 9th ISSOL (International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life) meeting at the University of California, San Diego. Digging on Mars with Phoenix
6/27/2008 The Phoenix spacecraft that recently landed on Mars is getting a lot of attention in the media. This NASA mission left Earth about 9 months ago and successfully landed a spacecraft near Mars’ north Explanation for Origin-of-Life’s Molecular Handedness is Insoluble
5/8/2008 One of my teenage daughters is left-handed. And nobody in our family wants to sit next to her when we eat at the table. It’s not because she has bad manners. It’s because her left arm bumps into the right arm of the person seated next to her. When it comes to meal time, left-handed and right-handed people don’t go well together. Ideal Biomarker
9/24/2007 Astrobiology still ranks as the only data-free discipline in science. Part of the problem is that in their search for signs of present or past existing life beyond planet Earth, astrobiologists have been attempting to detect biomarker molecules that already are known to yield ambiguous results. Interstellar Rocks Miss the Mark
4/1/2001 Where, when, and how did life originate? Answers to these questions prove more elusive than ever to the science community—specifically to those who demand a naturalistic answer. Life on Mars
1/1/2004 It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when, the remains of life will be discovered on Mars. Will such a discovery shake the foundations of Christian faith? The answer lies in the difference between the words indigenous and transported. I reported sixteen years ago1 and in all three editions of The Creator and the Cosmos,2 that the nature and longevity of life on Earth makes the existence of Earth-life's remains on Mars and other solar system bodies a foregone conclusion. Mars Life: A Second Opinion
1/1/2001 The “possible” discovery of Martian life made headlines again in March 2001. In a strained effort to uphold the evolutionary paradigm, secularists seize any hope of a Martian origin-of-life scenario with gleeful enthusiasm. Natural Sugar Synthesis?
8/6/2007 Compulsory features for the replicating molecules of life (DNA and RNA) include five-carbon sugars, namely deoxyribose for DNA and ribose for RNA. These sugars form the backbone of DNA and RNA. Thus, for a naturalistic explanation for the origin of life to become a possibility, some nonbiological source of five-carbon sugars must be found. No, No, Nanobacteria
6/12/2008 Common wisdom would say that someone who is less than six feet tall would never make it as a professional basketball player. Size matters in the NBA. Size also matters to biochemists. Search for Reservoirs of the Building Blocks of Life
6/11/2007 Less than a two-hour drive from Reasons To Believe’s headquarters is an amusement park called Legoland, where one can gaze at amazingly complex structures built from a rather small set of simple building blocks called Legos. Even the simplest life-form is orders of magnitude more complicated than anything on display at Legoland. Nevertheless, like the Legoland structures, life molecules are assemblages of a relatively small set of comparatively simple molecules. Through the Glass Darkly
4/3/2008 My teenage daughters spend a lot of time in front of the mirror. For my girls, life without a mirror is unimaginable. But they aren’t the only ones who feel that way. Origin-of-life researchers are obsessed with mirror images, too. Viking Invasion of Mars Thwarted
9/6/2007 The possibility of life on Mars has held human interest for hundreds of years and has recently become an obsession for NASA. Water on Mars Too Salty for Life
7/3/2008 I always know when our water purification system isn’t working right. All it takes is a gulp of water from the kitchen tap. The intense salty taste followed by spewed water in the sink is a telltale PanspermiaWe May All Be Space Aliens: Study
Author: Dr. Fazale ("Fuz") Rana Big Bang Test/Homochirality
Author: Hugh Ross, Fuz Rana, and Joe Aguirre Can Spaceships Travel Faster than Speed of Light?
Hugh Ross, Dave Rogstad, and Joe Aguirre Culture Gave Early Humans Edge
Author: Dr. Fazale ("Fuz") Rana How Life Became Left-Handed
Author: Dr. Fazale ("Fuz") Rana Humans made fire 790,000 years ago: study
Author: Dr. Fazale ("Fuz") Rana Just-Right Timing of Oxygen on Early Earth
Jeff Zweerink, Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Joe Aguirre Microbes in Antarctic Ice
Fuz Rana, Jeff Zweerink, and Joe Aguirre Scientists Spot Organic Molecule on Distant Planet
Author: Dr. Hugh Ross, Dr. Fazale ("Fuz") Rana, and Dr. Jeff Zweerink Panspermia |
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