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If early earth had oxygen in its atmosphere, the amino acids that would have been required for the first cell to form would have been destroyed by oxidation. However a lack of oxygen would've meant a lack of ozone which would've meant a lot of radiation which would've meant a lack of life. Either way, life is screwed. Oxygen and life could only have appeared simultaneously.

--- I don't remember the last time I breathed in ozone. (ie why would ozone be on the floor?) And if they did appear simultaneously..well...what?


Ancient cultures did have a lot of legends. And out of legend you can usually discover a truth that the legend is based on. When every single ancient culture ever discovered has a legend about a great catastrophic world-wide flood in which only a few people were saved who then had to restart the human race, you start to wonder.

--- Yeah but I bet not all the legends involve a story about two animals of each. Maybe there was a big flood. Who knows? If there was...so what? Cataclysmic events occur, nobody doubts that, the dinosaurs know better than most...the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico or whatever knows too.

According to the conventional theory of star formation, stars formed from swirling balls of gas and dust that were condensed by gravity to form stars. Their heat comes from the tremendous work done by gravity or something. If the sun and solar system evolved from a ball of gas, where has the gas that didnt form the sun and the planets and stuff gone? Into the sun? Nope, we'd have an infra-red fireworks display if it was. Out into space? Not there either - gravity wouldn't let it. It simply doesn't exist. Where oh where did our solar system come from?

--- ...the gas is still here...gas is a changeable state too, don't forget...

According to the teory of plate-techtonics, the mid-oceanic ridge is where plates are being formed. The ridges are supposedly in the middle of plates and consist of material "gushing" out from the mantle and spreading out to form the plate. This would possibly explain why Africa and America are moving slowly apart (like - 1 inch per year). However there is no geographical evidence to validate this belief. I'm not going to go into that now though.

--- So, a huge ridge isn't geographic evidence?

When they say "terrestrial-like brines, and earthlike isotopic patterns" they essentially mean that the meteors look like chunks of garden hurled out into space. This does indeed "implicate earth as their source". The things they found on them either came from earth or earth's undiscovered identical twin very recently (like within a few thousand years). Incidently, to say life was seeded from somewhere else removes the problem of explaining how life evolved on earth, by transfering it to the problem of explaining how life arose on whatever planet we were supposedly seeded from. That doesn't even slightly help.

--- Neither does this answer...I don't understand. And anyway, who's to say the people picking up the rocks are 100% correct? They could have mistaken a rock for a meteorite.

An amino acid is more than a peice of spaghetti. There are two types of amino acids - left and right-handed. Each amino acid molecule's made up of a LOT of smaller molecules. These molecules had to come together simultaneously to form one amino acid. There is a 50/50 chance that that amino acid will be either left handed or right handed. A protein molecule is made up of hundreds (usually) of amino acids. Not only that but they are all right-handed. Left-handed molecules are toxic. Not only that, but becuase of nature constantly trying to return to equilibrium, even if an amino acid did miraculously spontaneously form, it would instantly decay into its constituent molecules. No more amino acid, unless the whole protein spontaneously formed and instantly started working in its correct place in the cell (which must also spontaneously form).

--- Oh okay. So you're saying somehow, somewhere, someone NOT made of amino acids shoved some amino acids together? I dunno. Don't like that notion.

A planet hit by a comet would break up before it began spinning in the opposite direction.

--- Jupiter didn't break up when it got hit by Shoemaker Levy-9.