Trip To Mars

One of the main goals of space exploration is to find water on other planets or their moons. Scientists are looking for water because water is necessary for life, and if life forms can be found outside of our planet Earth, then it would offer support for one hypositheis about the origin of life on our planet. This hypositheis suggests that life first developed somewhere else and was carried to Earth by a meteor, and from that meteor carried seed of life, all life on Earth evolved. There is one main reason for this hypositheis. Evolution requirres a starting point, and scientist do not know how life began. No experiments have produced life from non-life. No instances of spontaneous generation of life have been observed. No mechanisms for spontaneous generation have been identified. Yet life had to have a beginning, and science in our generation is not allowed to have a non-mechanical origin theory. Finding life on other planets or moons actually would not solve the ultimate question about spontaneous generation, but the thought is that perhaps with other combinations of chemicals and such they will come up with a better theory. The one assurance the public is given to justify the cost of this space exploration is that we have recently found new life forms near thermal vents deep in the ocean floor, and microscopic life beneath glaciers, and if life can thrive in what are described as hostile environments, then perhaps simple life forms are possible outside of the more ideal conditions present because of Earth's unique climate and distance from the Sun and its location in the Solar System.

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The problem with this view is that life is not simply a matter of the correct chemistry. The general public has an impression of a primordial soup, chuck full of the right ingredients, mixed with a little lightning, given millions of years to stew, and then arising from that the first simple cells. This view is not only misleading but false. It is false because even if we select the right ingredients, in the correct amounts, with a perfect environment, and using water as the universal solvent which can mix everything together, life does not begin through a chemical reaction. Life requires information. And it takes a lot of information to produce even the most basic life forms. The simplest cells need a huge amount of information, on a multitude of levels, operating independly. And each independent ooperation is necessary for the construction, the functioning, and the reproduction of even the most basic cells. Information is needed to build proteins, to shape them into a multitude of different cell building machines, to determine shape and function and energy reception, waste removal, and reproduction. The information chain in the most basic cell is over 3 million links long, each link needing a mixture of different acids and sugars, providing information possibilities thousands of times more vast that a computer binary code. In human life this chain is 3 billion links long. Now theoretically life could function with an information code of only 300,000 links, but you see what the problem is. We have not observed nature building these links on its own, nor have scientist been able to build these links from scratch.

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I was an athethist prior to becoming a Christian at age 22. When I started to study scripture it was a first difficult to take certain passages literally because I assumed that science had proven evolution. Sincere Christians can take scripture literally and come up with different conclusions and I'm not going to define here what mine are. But my point is that is wasn't until I became reborn in the spirit and decided to believe that God's word was inspired that I had the freedom to question the prevailing wisdom of the world. The other day I was reading from one of the gospel accounts and it told about the disciples out in the sea in their boat at night, crossing over to the other side, and Jesus walks right out to them on the water. And I thought, how cool was that! It's not a problem for me because I believe that God is the designer and the creator, and that He can figure out how to do stuff like that.

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But the world is blinded to seeing God as designer and creator. Science has told us that we must have a mechanistic explanation for life and it's diversity, and any discussion outside of that is promoting religion. So we will be spending billions on a quest to see if somehow other not yet know conditions could have produced amazing and complex information links that survived a meteor ride to earth to produce the dogma promoted by our most educated inhabitants.

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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it". (John 1: 1-5)