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Earth's an egg that was fertilized from outer space
LIFE BEGAN on Earth after it was spattered with meteorite ejaculate 4.5bn years ago, scientists reckon.
This conclusion was drawn by
an international team of
scientists led by Dr. Zita Martins of Imperial College London and Leiden
University after they analysed the cosmic payload delivered by two meteorites
dug out of the antarctic waste in the mid-1990s.
“We know that approximately 3.8 to 4.5 billion years ago the Earth underwent heavy bombardment from meteorites which brought molecules to our planet, just before life emerged on Earth," said Dr. Martins in a press statement.
However, she said: "There is a gap in knowledge about how life came into being. Our work has shown that it may have been meteoritic amino acids and other biologically useful compounds that spurred life into existence.”
The team said they found the the highest concentration of amino-acids ever found in a meteorite, at about 280ppm (parts per million). Amino acids are the fundamental organic building block that formed part of the primordial soup from which life emerged on Earth billions of years ago.
The next highest concentration of amino acids in a meteorite, of 71 ppm, was found in 1985. But other payloads have been found either to be of the wrong type of amino acid or in too weak a concentration for a clear analysis to be made.
Some have been found to contain the same type of amino acids as was also present in the surrounding ice, suggesting they hadn't been delivered by meteorite.
But the ones analysed by Martins' team - the memorably-named EET92042 and Graves Nunataks (GRA) 95229 - had amino acids evolved to live amidst higher concentrations of carbon than found on the Earth so must have come from outer space, they said in their paper.
Called chrondite meteorites, they are unlike the vast
majority of meteorites that fall on Earth. They are thought to have been blurted
out when the solar system first exploded into existence as long as 4.5bn years
ago.
Scientists have to make their studies of these fragile amino acids using meteorites that are collected soon after they have fallen.
This of course implies that meteorites with freshly delivered primeval payloads are sitting throbbing now in the Antarctic wastes, where morally corrupt oil companies are preparing to go poking around. They do it at their peril.
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im calling bull on this one...

there are no good dating methods... They do NOT know how old the earth is... each method of dating relies on two things ... a fixed amount of starting substance and a fixed rate of decay... somthing we Know doesnt happen.

When you find a miners cap in an old mine...that has become fossilized and using three dating methods...get three different answers ranging from 100,000 years to 6billion.... the mine was dug 50yr ago and the fossil matched the equipmant they used in it.

Life started...they admit it they don't know

Theories are theories and just that don't confuse it with science...
Wow, didn't take long for a wacky YEC to show up commenting on this story, did it?
easy there fella, go back to church now will you!
Half life and rate of decay are not theories they are fact, though the accuracy of measurement leaves much to be desired...

And not to start a biblical debate.... But there isn't a scientist I know that wouldn't love to disprove the above facts... how many preachers would dare dispute the bible?
than some magical being snapped his finger and all life was just here.
Most Life never reproduces, it simply is Food for Life that does Spawn. All life today has been alive since beginninng, 4.5 billion years ago, thats heafty DOB.

It took me over 3 billion to figure out:
AT stands for Andrew Thomas. Yet ADDS still eludes me, give me another billion & maybe wewill know. Spawing entire planet has left me Weakened?NEXT:
I don't see the difference. 

Both side of the debate are fixated on exogenic origins for life. Why can't people accept that it may have actually arisen here?

On the flipside, they also both have the same eschatological views: an Earth consumed by fire.

Finally, each refuses to recognize the canonicity of the others' sacred scriptures.
Antartica [sic] daiquiris [hic!].
That's some proof.
She wasn't always a mother.
So could it be that Hoyle and Wickramasinghe were right after all?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Careful Bryan your upsetting the Darwinists. Their fragile theories can't handle the truth.
The reality is they continually flog these dates to support their religion, atheism. 

They can make up any fairytale they want I just wish they would quit trying to call it science when it's actually science fiction.

I find it a rather interesting demographics study to find that some those that are interested in the unfolding of technology are so embittered by science that they grasp at any loop hole in the evolutionary process. It seems like cutting off the nose to spite the face.