Earth life 'may have come from Mars'

[Turborama]

August 29 2013 Last updated at 00:09 GMT

By Simon Redfern
Reporter, BBC News, Florence


Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.

New research supports an idea that the Red Planet was a better place to kick-start biology billions of years ago than the early Earth was.

The evidence is based on how the first molecules necessary for life were assembled.

Details of the theory were outlined by Prof Steven Benner at the Goldschmidt Meeting in Florence, Italy.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23872765



Predictably, a creationist assault is underway in the comments under this article.

Yes, in response one of them really tried to counter it with:

"Human life started on Earth about 6,000 years ago when God created Adam & Eve on the 6th day of creation week"

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I find this idea fascinating. Not sure how if could be definitively proven (barring discovery of

life on Mars with evidence of common, distant ancestry with Earth life)

...As For Ken Ham, there, in the comments, fuck him.

[TheAmbivalante]

2. "...on the 6th day of creation week."

So a creationist said, "Human life started on Earth about 6,000 years ago when God created Adam & Eve on the 6th day of creation week."

Foolish. Everyone knows that life begins on Day 1 of Shark Week.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Indeed

[Laelth]

4. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth