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Related: About this forumEarth life 'may have come from Mars'
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
(80,708 posts)life on Mars with evidence of common, distant ancestry with Earth life)
...As For Ken Ham, there, in the comments, fuck him.
TheAmbivalante
(114 posts)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
(72,300 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth