What direct evidence is there that there are, or were, bacterial spores in space?
A. On August 7, 1996, NASA announced that it sees evidence of fossilized “nanobacteria” in a meteorite from Mars. Q. But that was only from Mars. Life could well have started from a chemical soup there just as we say it did here. I want evidence that life on Earth comes from distant space. Isn’t that what Cosmic Ancestry maintains? A. Yes. But to stay on Mars for a minute, if that evidence stands up, then either a) it is very easy to start life on suitable planets from nonliving chemicals (which is not what our molecular biology laboratories are finding out), or b) life on different planets comes from a common source — Cosmic Ancestry. Q. OK, so life started on either Earth or Mars (more likely Mars) and then got transferred to the other one on a rock like the one NASA investigated. A. That’s one scenario. But other evidence of fossilized bacteria in meteorites — meteorites not from Mars but from spent comets — has been reported. In 1961, George Claus and Bartholomew Nagy published pic
