Can life emerge from favourable environments on Earth or on the 100's of billions of other habitable zone planets?
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After decades of stagnation, this little corner of biology seems to be growing up fast...journal articles: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.1086.html http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5918/1229.abstract?sid=d8403b17-3409-4402-8e31-77c333fe7f95 http://molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/publications/Szostak_pdfs/Szostak_2009_Nature.pdf molecular biologist in Nature (2013) Are we panspermians from another http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001, a Divine Creator, a super-race's test tube, or Earthly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis? http://www.livescience.com/3214-life-created-lab.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090109173205.htm http://www.space.com/22880-life-from-space-panspermia-possibility.html http://exploringorigins.org/protocell.html
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Yes of course, a lot of the insurmountable difficulties encountered developing a full theory of abiogenesis are beginning to go away. http://molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/publications/Szostak_pdfs/Szostak_2009_Nature.pdf
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Personally I believe in Earthly abiogensis. Some results, like those shown above, lend evidence to it being possible. It not scientifically proved, but it seems possible. Proving panspermia is going to be hard. We'd have to confirm life on other worlds first, and that has proved to be difficult. Once we do that, we'd have to prove that these organis could travel and arrive safely on Earth. And then we'd need to figure out how life started on Mars (or whereever it originated from). Many people believe that these unlikely events happened as part of a divine plan. We can't prove this scientifically, but it's an interesting idea.
Miguel Valdespino
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