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Solid proof that the source of all life on this planet actually began on a different world. The critical components came here via a comet or even an spacecraft that inadvertently dropped it off. Should screw with a lot of ideals
"Scientists find proof that the hand of God created all life on Earth."
Solid proof of God? Yeah that would change things
I was referring to how it would be spun if life was proven to have come from an extra terrestrial source.
You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!
This is always my reaction to this theory as well. If someone asks "How did life on Earth start?", surely we can assume they actually mean "How did life start?"
It's like if a kid saw a baby, and asks their parents "Where do babies come from?", and their reply is "Oh that baby lives next door, it came from that house".
Id expand on this. I think the entire solar system has microbial life. Every crack it can exist it will. Asteroids, comets, the gas giants. Its likely all related too. Itd be mostly underground tho and hard to find. Probably multicellular life in some cases too like ice moons, and underground on mars in cave systems.
Still better than the alternative: solid proof that we are in fact alone in the universe
Not only is that unprovable, it seems highly unlikely.
I thought we had evidence that life was seeded from off world? don't have sources right now but i remember coming by an article explaining that.
Want that the story about the teen aged alien that came here to jack off?
no, a asteroid from space came with the seeds of life that helped kick-start it.
Lol I know.
likewise, alien life probably even if just microbial would throw a monkeywrench in a lot of folks beilef system