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You realize "animals" did not exist for 1.5 billion years after life began, right? Well obviously you do not. Evolution has no problem with those 1.5 billion years when prokaryotes ruled the earth alone.
So, according to you, there might be single celled organisms, some algae and...land plants! But no animals, like fish.
Have you ever had a close look at the timescales and order in which things evolved? I'm guessing not.
I guess you have and have looked it many times. But you still saw nothing.
mars has no atmosphere, so it makes it impossible for life to exist there. It would all depend on a timeline running pretty much exactly as ours, and then somewhere shortly after life starts, something removes mars' atmosphere, leaving behind some trace of the life that was there. I find that a little more than highly improbable. Anything that could strip a planet of its atmosphere would strip nearly everything on the surface right along with it.
serge546 said:I agree that life, like humans and other "higher" animals, would likely not survive on Mars. However, I think you are underestimating the resilience and tenacity of microorganisms. Increased cosmic radiation would be no problem for organisms similar to Deinococcus radiodurans (also known as "Conan the bacterium") which can survive vacuums, insane Gamma radiation exposure and dehydration.
Extremophiles we have on Earth could easily survive martian conditions, so it's not too much of a stretch to assume life could develop on Mars to survive these conditions, as well. Knowing what I know about bacteria, it's not really a question of whether bacteria could survive current Martian conditions but if they ever got there in the first place.
Remember, not all life requires oxygen. Many species of bacteria use other compounds as electron acceptors instead of oxygen.
No, it's not. I told you what evolution is about, and as far as I know, the scientific consensus is on my side.There is always need. That is what evolution is about.
The age of the planet doesn't matter. Whether he supports life matters. If the planet is 1,6 billion years old, but didn't support life until 1,5 billion years ago, then we wouldn't expect complex life.Other planets also have several 1.5 b.y. history. So, if they don't have animals, what would you say?
Nice way of dodging a question, I must say.I guess you have and have looked it many times. But you still saw nothing.
No, it's not. I told you what evolution is about, and as far as I know, the scientific consensus is on my side.
If the best way to survive is to remain a bacterium, then life will remain in the bacterial stage.
The age of the planet doesn't matter. Whether he supports life matters. If the planet is 1,6 billion years old, but didn't support life until 1,5 billion years ago, then we wouldn't expect complex life.
Can you please stop using your own definition of evolution, please?
Nice way of dodging a question, I must say.
We still have bacteria today. What would you say about it? Are they happy and contend?
Change sure, but dissipate completely?
May God Richly Bless You! MM
Bacteria have no nervous system. They can't be happy and contend, nor can they be sad and frustrated.We still have bacteria today. What would you say about it? Are they happy and contend?
The point of this thread is not to say your religion is false IF life is found; rather, I am interested if life on other planets would be a problem for your religion. Would God (Judeo-Christian god) also be credited with making this life even if it not mentioned in the bible?
Easy G (G²);61130680 said:Heaven help them if they were to bring back something from the trip that would lead to a disease spreading to harm us greatly...something that could have potentially wiped out any life that may've existed there. You never know...
Other planets also have several 1.5 b.y. history. So, if they don't have animals, what would you say?
We still have bacteria today. What would you say about it? Are they happy and contend?
Easy G (G²);61130680 said:Heaven help them if they were to bring back something from the trip that would lead to a disease spreading to harm us greatly...something that could have potentially wiped out any life that may've existed there. You never know...
Understood, and I still don't believe they will find anything. As I stated in my reply to selfinflikted, mars has no atmosphere, so it makes it impossible for life to exist there. It would all depend on a timeline running pretty much exactly as ours, and then somewhere shortly after life starts, something removes mars' atmosphere, leaving behind some trace of the life that was there. I find that a little more than highly improbable. Anything that could strip a planet of its atmosphere would strip nearly everything on the surface right along with it.
May God Richly Bless You! MM
Easy G (G²);61130680 said:Heaven help them if they were to bring back something from the trip that would lead to a disease spreading to harm us greatly...something that could have potentially wiped out any life that may've existed there. You never know...
Originally Posted by Metal Minister
Understood, and I still don't believe they will find anything. As I stated in my reply to selfinflikted, mars has no atmosphere, so it makes it impossible for life to exist there. It would all depend on a timeline running pretty much exactly as ours, and then somewhere shortly after life starts, something removes mars' atmosphere, leaving behind some trace of the life that was there. I find that a little more than highly improbable. Anything that could strip a planet of its atmosphere would strip nearly everything on the surface right along with it. May God Richly Bless You! MM
I think he is speaking from the scientific perspective. Not the WIKI perspective.
NASA mission asks why Mars has no atmosphere October 7, 2010 By Robert Sanders Enlarge Artist's conception of MAVEN Mars orbiter. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA this week gave the green light to a mission to Mars that will seek to understand why and how the red planet lost its atmosphere 3-4 billion years ago.
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NASA mission asks why Mars has no atmosphere
This implies the atmosphere has become thinner, but it doesn't state that the atmosphere is gone completely."There's lots of evidence that in the past, Mars had running water, but to have running water you need a thick atmosphere, and that's gone now," said Lin, a UC Berkeley professor of physics and former director of the SSL.
Flat-out states that Mars' still has an atmosphere.Building on the preliminary data from Mars Global Surveyor, MAVEN will study how solar wind particles ionize Mars' remaining atmosphere, how rapidly the ions are carried into space, and attempt to reconstruct the atmosphere's history based on past activity of the sun.
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