Panspermia9th International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life Meeting
Summary by Fuz Rana & Hugh Ross
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?
David H Rogstad, Ph.D. 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 recovered on a Astrology: Help, Hoax, or Harm?
by Hugh Ross, Ph.D. 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
by Fazale Rana 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
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
Posted by Fazale ‘Fuz’ Rana, Ph.D. Another Mechanism to Explain Origin of Homochirality Questioned Ideal Biomarker
by Hugh Ross 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
by Hugh Ross, Ph.D. 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
by Fazale R. Rana 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?
by Hugh Ross 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. Search for Reservoirs of the Building Blocks of Life
by Hugh Ross 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
Posted by Fazale ‘Fuz’ Rana, Ph.D. Mechanism to Explain Origin of Homochirality Questioned Viking Invasion of Mars Thwarted
Posted by Fazale ‘Fuz’ Rana, Ph.D. New Study Indicates No Organics in the Martian SoilWater on Mars Too Salty for Life
Posted by Fazale ‘Fuz’ Rana, Ph.D. 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 PanspermiaPanspermia |
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