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05/18/06

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The Secret to Life is on the Moon

Peter Ward (coauthor of Rare Earth) was featured this week on an NPR broadcast claiming that the moon is the best place to look for evidence of the origin of life on earth because fossilized evidence from 3-4 billion years ago, which is missing on earth, may have wound up on the moon when meteors hit the earth. The skeptics reply that all we will find is moon dust, because with no atmosphere the earth fragments would have been pulverized when they slammed in to the moon. Ward countered that we should still find evidence of the early traces of life in the dust, and if so that means life formed easily and it will be found everywhere in the universe.

The chemical origin of life remains one of the largest "missing links" for the molecule-to-man theory of evolution. As every possible theory has been exhausted here on earth, reductionists have expanded the search to the moon, Mars and the universe in hopes of finding some shread of evidence to support their belief that life somehow spontaneously generated from non-life. We agree with Ward on one point. He called the origin of life the most important question in the cosmos! We agree. So lets teach our kids all the evidence pro and con and let them make up their own minds, rather than feeding them only government mandated reductionist fairytales.

You can listen to the NPR story here which has a bit of a fun scifi angle to it, which is probably the best way to present Ward's theories.

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