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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Russian Orthodox Priests Admits Comet Could've Created Life on Earth

      

Boldly bridging the gap between faith and science, a Russian Orthodox Church spokesman has voiced backing for the panspermia theory of life origin, which holds that life was transported here from elsewhere in the universe.

"God could have created the world through various means," Moscow Patriarchate representative Vsevolod Chaplin was cited as saying Thursday by the TASS news agency.
"This includes the primary material contained in the bowels of a comet," Vsevolod Chaplin added.


He was commenting on the findings of the first comet landing in history, pulled off last week by the European Space Agency (ESA), which landed the Philae spacecraft on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet.

Philae has found organic molecules — the basic building bricks of life — on the comet, the German Aerospace Agency was cited as saying by the Wall Street Journal.

This has given a new boost to the "panspermic" theory of life origins, which posits that life is distributed from world to world by comets and meteorites carrying dormant microorganisms that awaken when landing on planets with favorable conditions — such as Earth.


    

The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, discovered by Soviet astronomers in 1969, dates back 4.5 billion years to the origins of the Solar System and is thought by scientists to contain "primary material" from which the celestial bodies in our system were originally made.

However, Philae has so far failed to drill deep enough into the Churyumov–Gerasimenko to obtain samples of the "primary material," which is, admittedly, more relevant for geology than biology. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/19/did-philae-drill-the-comet/
Chaplin said that in any case, the "panspermic" hypothesis was not enough to disprove creationism.

"Science still does not know how matter came to be, if it is eternal, how one animal species evolves from another … and how the cell and the human mind came to exist," the priest said.
"Science has yet to present proof that these processes can happen on their own. There is, and probably can be no proof for it."

    


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