How the discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system may affect the explanations for the origin of life ?
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2007-04-10 11:30:29 · 3 answers · asked by melong_91 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
A lot of theories we have about how life came to be have a lot to do with how we know the Earth was a long time ago. If we find life somewhere else where conditions were very different, we might compare those two environments and know what was really important for producing life and what was not!
There's also a curious theory that maybe life DIDN'T start on Earth but was spread here by meteors from some other place. If we find life almost identical at its core to our own, that would lend a lot of support to this theory.
2007-04-10 11:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religious people make up a high percentage of the population. If science were able to show some evidence of life on other planets, these people would have to open there eyes to the fact that what they have believed for so long and fought so hard to protect was all a lie.
2007-04-10 18:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by mike m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that would likely support the Panspermia hypothesis. that life started on earth when life from an other planet was brought to earth, likely through an asteriod or something along those lines.
but if that is how life started on earth, the next question is where that life came from and so on.
2007-04-10 19:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by danny_is_cool1986 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋