"We are thrilled with the prospect that lunar missions could put our creation model to the test, either affirming or showing us wrong. Finding and analyzing pristine fossils of Earth's first life could help settle, finally, one of the great creation-evolution controversies."
(Glendora, Ca.)—Current space programs may set their sights on Mars, but a team of astronomers and a biochemist at the science-faith think tank Reasons To Believe (RTB) publicly encourage NASA and other space agencies to revisit the lunar surface—to look for the remains of Earth's oldest life-forms.
Astronomer and RTB president Hugh Ross says, "The Apollo program helped researchers solve the mystery of the Moon's origin. Return missions to the Moon could solve the mystery of life's origin."
According to biochemist Fazale Rana, "Chemical signatures confirm life was present on Earth in fair abundance..." What's missing, he says, are the fossils. "Wind and water erosion and plate tectonics have destroyed the fossils of Earth's first life. [But] there are good reasons to expect them in abundance in pristine forms on the Moon."
Ross and fellow astronomer Jeff Zweerink point out that when the Earth was young, it was "bombarded" by asteroids and large meteorites. "These collisions sent large amounts of the Earth's surface material into outer space, and much of that material landed on the Moon—about a million kilograms on every 100 square kilometers of the Moon's surface."
New research by British earth scientist Ian Crawford indicates that at least some of this Earth material made it to the Moon with its fossil structures still intact. Crawford affirms that "substantial survivability is to be expected."
In their book Origins of Life, Rana and Ross present their model for the origin of life. This model, totally compatible with the Bible, predicts that (1) Earth's first life would be both complex and diverse; and (2) the origin of life occurred suddenly... Non-theistic models predict the opposite.
As Ross stated in a lecture at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, "We are thrilled with the prospect that lunar missions could put our creation model to the test, either affirming or showing us wrong. Finding and analyzing pristine fossils of Earth's first life could help settle, finally, one of the great creation-evolution controversies."
Source: ASSIST News Service
- It is impossible to "test" a creation/evolution model of origins unless you can reproduce the events or were there to witness them. All we have is the present, we cannot observe the past.
- They admit that there is no evidence to support their evolutionary theory so they must look to the moon.
- They speak as if they witnessed the supposed meteor/asteroid bombardment where Earth cast tons of material onto the moon.
- They speak as if they have measured the amount of Earth that was supposedly transferred to the moon's surface.
- Rana and Ross claim life appeared suddenly? What happened to slow and gradual evolution theory? So the information for biological organisms just magically appeared and the mysterious "life" entity just happened to inhabit the organism that laid waiting for a host.
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