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Is spontaneous life possible under the right conditions?
 
  Since the time of Louis Pasteur, there has existed a scientific argument that spontaneous development of cell based life is impossible- that all cell based life is bio-genetic, that all life can be derived down to a few cells that spawned millions of years ago.  
  A famous experiment was done to "prove" the theory of "biogenesis". Pasteur put bacteria into a sterilized dish and showed that it would not develop without re-contact with sunlight.  
  That the conditions on Earth have rarely if ever been sterile has done little to diminish the belief by most scientists that the Pasteur test is valid proof. However, recent re-evaluation on the biogenesis tests have shown Pasteur was deliberately misleading in his experiments. For it has now has been proven without doubt that in the re-created conditions of early Earth, carbon chains and even amino acids form within days.  
12.23.1 Conditions for the birth of Life on Earth  
  Since its formation 4.5 Billion years ago, the Earth must have lost its original atmosphere- it was probably swept away by the violent solar wind coming from the newly formed star- The Sun.  
  Later the atmosphere evolved to hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, ammonia, water vapor and carbon dioxide.  
  The temperature was low enough to allow the water vapor to condense and form the oceans. Since the atmosphere contained neither oxygen nor ozone, ultraviolet radiation from the Sun could freely penetrate the atmosphere, right down to the Surface of the Earth. This energy flux, combined with that obtained from other sources, such as storms, volcanoes, asteroids, comets, led to the formation of more complex organic molecules that were dissolved in the relatively fresh water oceans of that epoch. Life it is suggested was born from a warm dilute soup.  
  Fossils dating from about 3.5 Billion years after the formation of the Earth have been discovered in very ancient sedimentary rocks. They are microscopic unicellular organisms, similar to bacteria. However, a further two billion years elapsed before the first multi-cellular organisms that we know of developed. This time lapse suggested that it is easier to proceed from the inert to unicellular life than from unicellular to multi-cell life.  
12.23.2 Understanding the key conditions for spontaneous life  
  Organic molecules ( living molecules) can be synthesized when an atmosphere without oxygen but containing hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, ammonia, water vapor and carbon dioxide is subjected to either  
 
o ultra violet radiation and electrical discharges;
o het particles;
o or greater density brought about by a shockwave ( such as a comet or asteroid) (meaning the right temperature.
 
  Proven experiments show that organic molecular transformation up to the amino acid stage occurs with the presence of an atmosphere of hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, methane, ammonia and water in vapor or liquid form (pools, or seas or oceans).  
  It has been proven that it is possible by altering the nature of the change of environment that the 20 known amino acids that form the basis of all proteins and therefore cellular life on Earth will form. It has been proven that with the existence of these conditions on Earth, the first life forms 3.3 Billion years ago were formed.  
  That amino acids form naturally, without any external force known as the life force at work. Simply the laws of matter interacting to create more complex shapes under the right conditions proves that there is no clear "special" differentiation between complex molecules we call life and simple molecules and atoms we call non-life.  
  We see that synergistically under the right conditions- all organisms are formed from the same "bricks"- 20 amino acids, five nucleotides that are cemented together by only six different chemical liaisons.  
  Therefore, leading science now has proven unmistakably that:  
  When the right conditions prevail, oxy-hydro-carbon combinations will always form into chains, then carbohydrates amino acids and ultimately cell life;  
  Life is therefore not only spontaneous under these conditions, it occurs naturally.  
12.23.3 Would these be the same laws in other parts of the Universe?  
  Yes, by virtue of the rules of matter formation remaining Universally consistent laws. Matter forms into atoms, Strong chemical fusion has consistent rules, fusion-based solution has consistent rules, molecules and compounds spontaneously formed under the right conditions.  
  While we are unable to prove the consistency of DNA structuring as a consistent method of life construction until we can analyze alien life forms (one day), on the argument of pure Logos, and the rules of creation of the Universe, the DNA method of replication where the conditions for life exist makes complete sense.  
  Where there are ocean planets in a state suitable for the formation of molecules and compounds, there will be life.  
12.23.4 What about spontaneous and naturally occurring silicon based life?  
  There has been some debate in the past, particularly amongst science fiction writers that silicon could be a base for organic life. It is now known that silicon cannot form the required number of stable compounds. Silicon atoms do not form the same complex long chains that carbon does.  
  This does not discount the very real probability of silicon based life (computers) existing in many places throughout the galaxy, nor mixtures of carbon and silicon (as is slowly happening to human beings via the cult of implants). In both cases however, silicon based, or mixed lifeforms would be the product of effort of carbon based higher-order biologics (that will be discussed in the next chapter).  
12.23.5 What about spontaneous and naturally occurring silicon based life?  
  One theory of contemporary science is that life on Earth could have come here via falling comet or asteroid and then developed from there. Remarkably, this theory is supported by a great many scientists working for the leading research bodies on this planet, including some from NASA.  
  Initially, the theory sounds possible, until you look at 2 major obstacles: o ability of cell structures of "life" to withstand the journey through extremes of space such as impact of gamma radiation, extremes of temperature, possible lack of resources to build more life on the comet and/or asteroid; o the extremes of temperature and reactions upon impact. On both points it is statistically impossible that life, requiring a range of conditions to be in place can ever survive such a journey, let alone the arrival.  
12.23.6 What about spontaneous and naturally occurring silicon based life?  
  Simply this- the existence of oceans allowed matter attracted to form solution based molecules to form solution based compounds that became more complex and specialized until programming of construction occurred according to the workings of the fundamental laws of the Universe.  
  In fact the fundamental laws as described in this book would have compelled matter to form life in these conditions anyway, whether or not basic life from another location was somehow able to survive and land on Earth.  
  A supporting argument that formation of molecules and compounds occurs naturally, leading to the natural creation of cells, is that evidence of the beginning of life on Earth indicate that it probably occurred around 500 million years after the birth of the planet- at a time when the surface of the Earth would have still been incredibly het, a substantially thinner atmosphere and oceans almost at boiling point on the surface. The history of life on Earth is discussed in detail in chapter 14.  
     
     
 
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