Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Gen 2:7/
Photo: Shhh, don’t tell the creationists!
As weâve noted previously in this space, one of the most frequently used phrases in articles about science is; âscientists had previously thoughtâ, or some close variation. Some claim that this is the very thing that is so wonderful about science, that science and its practioners refuse to rest on its/their laurels and that they/it keep searching for the truth and freely admit their mistakes when theyâre discovered.
I personally hadnât noticed that about science, but do note with interest that the internet and the current 24 hour media cycle appear to be speeding up the rate of “previous believism”.
To wit; Back in 1996 NASAâs announcement that alien bacteria had been discovered in a meteorite from Antarctica evoked quite a bit of international fanfare from inside and outside the scientific community. Although there were always skeptics of the âdiscoveryâ, it wasnât until 2007 that the claim was thoroughly disproven when Mary Sue Bell, a University of Houston grad student was able to precisely recreate the alleged âbacterialâ imprints with a lab created collision similar to a meteorite impacting a planetary surface.
NASA had to back away from its alien bacteria claims, but it took them 11 years.
On the othert hand, Ida, the alleged human ancestor fossil that was going to change everything, was introduced with much fanfare in April, 2009 and debunked before the end of that year, failing to make most top ten science story lists of 2009. Ida was replaced on some top ten lists with Ardi, another proposed earliest human ancestor, whose discovery had been announced in October of 2009.
However, by May of 2010, the same journal; âScienceâ, which had mucho ballyhooed Ardi, had this to say:
“Ardi,” the fossil female whose discovery is thought to stretch our human ancestry back more than 4 million years, has been challenged by specialists who discount the evidence of how she lived and maintain she was never a forerunner of the human line.â
Ardi and Ida were both effectively debunked as human ancestors within six to eight months of their worldwide discovery announcements, setting new records âfor scientists had previously thoughtâ reversals.
The Whole Alien Life and the Origin of Terrestrial Life Thing
It had taken NASA 11 years to back away from their 1976 alleged alien life discovery. On Friday, March 4th of this year NASA scientist Richard Hoover published a peer reviewed article in the Journal âCosmologyâ with the claim that that he had found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite.
This story was published internationally under headlines like: âNASA Scientist Finds ‘Alien Life’ Fossilsâ. Naturally, the NASA connection seemingly provided some support to the claim which was met with excitement-and skepticism.
Hold that thought for a minute before; the rest of the story.
âTwenty years ago the palaeontological community gasped as geoscientists revealed evidence for the oldest bacterial fossils on the planet.â..naturenews
The evidence here was a piece of rock found in Australia known as the Apex Chert and it contained it was said evidence of the earliest life on earth. Scientists declared that the Apex Chert was 3.5 billion years old, whereas Genesis would set its maximum age at 10,000 years or less. Last week there was a development re the Apex Chert as described by this headline:
âWhoops! Scientists left red-faced as oldest ‘evidence of life’ turns out to be iron depositsâ
Whoops indeed. And what about all those evolution adherents who had snootily quoted this “fact” to non-evolution believers for twenty years? This âscientists had previously thoughtâ item took even longer than the 1976 NASA âdiscoveryâ to reverse.
Getting back to NASA scientist Richard Hooverâs âalien life fossilsâ.
They were announced on a Friday and disavowed by âtop scientists in different disciplinesâ, including NASA by the following Monday, by noon, setting new standards for scientists had previously thought type reversals. No alien fossils and quite probably no bacterial fossils.
So whatâs going on? Why the dubious claims of proofs of early life and of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life?
The title of a recent article published in Scientific American* and written by John Horgan might provide a clue; âPssst! Don’t tell the creationists, but scientists don’t have a clue how life beganâ. S8int.com blogged about this earlier this year in our article; When It Comes to Explanations for the Origin of Life, Genesis Has the Quality; So, Science Comes At You With Quantity
We think that materialist science understands that if it cannot accept the Genesis account a good counter would be to be able to prove exactly how life âactuallyâ began. They have been and will continue to be unsuccessful. Frustrated perhaps with this paralyzing failure, some scientists have felt the need to come up with some incredible theories to fill the void. Increasingly, the idea that life may have begun elsewhere in the universe and made its way to earth on a comet has become popular even though this only moves the origin of life problem to a new location.
Recently, famous Atheist Dawkins, allowed that while he couldnât accept God as the Designer/Creator of life on earth, he didnât have the same reticence in believing some alien was the designer/creator.
Another famous Atheist, or so he claims, named John W. Loftus, the author of several Atheistic books was very excited about NASA scientist, Richard Hoover’s claims about alien life fossils. He posted the following telling post on his Debunking Christianity Blog entitled: NASA Scientist Finds Evidence of Alien Life â
See, the Bible doesnât mention alien life. Therefore proof that alien life exists or even that it existed in the past would serve as a way of debunking Christianity, God and the Bible.
In the wake of recent events, however that post is no longer available.
*Thanks to CreationEvolutionHeadlines for the heads up on this article.
âThe origins of life on Earth bristle with puzzle and paradox. Which came first, the proteins of living cells or the genetic information that makes them? How could the metabolism of living things get started without an enclosing membrane to keep all the necessary chemicals together? But if life started inside a cell membrane, how did the necessary nutrients get in?
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