Can Comets Explain Origin of Life?
Contributed by: Admin In the Earth’s past there was powerful geological activity which could have easily spewed dirt and gigantic rocks, some possibly containing microbes, into outer space. Our meteors and comets may have actually originated from Earth. In fact NASA scientist, Dr. Kenneth Nealson, has claimed that such dirt and geological debris could have eventually reached even Mars ********************** By Babu G. Ranganathan Does the recent news by scientists of a comet containing a chemical building block of life furnish evidence that comets were responsible for life’s origin on Earth? In his book “In The Beginning” MIT scientist Dr. Walt Brown mentions some thoughts concerning comets (Please consult his book to review his biographical sources behind the footnotes. His book is free to access and read on-line). “Comets may be the most dynamic, spectacular, variable, and mysterious bodies in the solar system. They even contain organic matterincluding trace amounts of the amino acid
