[meteorite-list] Alien Life Topic

[JoshuaTreeMuseum]

Hi Kirk,

You do understand the difference between evidence and proof, do you not?  No 
one is denying the abundance of building blocks in comets and meteorites. 
You can't swing a dead cat on a rope and not hit a building block.  Amino 
acids, glycine, phosphorus, carbon, water, you name it,  it's everywhere, 
but it's not alive.  Mere organic compounds by themselves are not even close 
to being live.   And it's a huge gigantic step requiring more faith than I 
can muster to believe that life is an inevitable consequence of the mere 
presence of building blocks.  If it were, there would be life on Mars, and 
scientists would be routinely creating life in the laboratory.  Did I miss 
the headlines: "News Flash! Life Found On Mars!",  or:  "News Flash! 
Scientist Creates Life In Laboratory!", or "News Flash!, Life Found In Outer 
Space!"  I think not.

The belief in aliens seems to be a crypto-religious form of group think, 
much like the belief in angels.  It's like a self replicating dogmatic meme, 
that requires no proof, or even evidence. You can remove the concept of gods 
from science, that's fine by me,  just don't offer up Chance or Probability 
Theory (all kneel!) as the new god and expect me to worship it.

Now proof of alien life would be when Klaatu lands his flying saucer on the 
South Lawn of the Whitehouse and shares a Bud Light with Barack Obama and 
Joe Biden.

Klaatu barada nikto,

Phil Whitmer


OK Phil & others----here is some of the PROOF that you wanted!!
Sounds pretty legit to me! Read the whole thing! Hmmmmm-----Sounds like my
post last week about amino acids coming from Comet & Meteorite impacts
bringing life to Earth from deep Space!
Time to eat some crow----eh??
Kirk.......:-)