Scientists use Moores law in linear regression to show life older than Earth

[PostmodernProphet]

That was not your point.

odd....it certainly looks like my point.......yes, I remember it well.....it IS my point.....perhaps you didn't look at it in the daylight.....

What do you expect to remain from dead bacteria?

how about zombie bacteria......or at the very least, a carcass or two.....

Would we have been able to identify it and the meteorite sites from a couple hundred years ago before whatever remains that had survived the space travel, burn through the atmosphere and impact were absorbed by terrestrial bacteria?

why wait a couple hundred years?.....wouldn't it be smarter to look at those that fall more recently?.....

[PostmodernProphet]

But we have found meteorites that some believe show signs of fossilized bacteria.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...meteorite.html
http://content.time.com/time/health/...087758,00.html

?....from your link......

The claims of life have been debunked every time, most recently just this past March. It always turns out to be a wishful interpretation of chemicals, minerals and tiny structures inside the meteorite that could be the fossilized husks of long-dead bacteria — but almost certainly aren't.

is this you, relying on the science that exists?.....

[PostmodernProphet]

There is plenty of proof for evolution on earth

certainly.....multiple varieties of butterflies......various types of canines.....

humans and their tree frogs cousins.....

[Timshel]

odd....it certainly looks like my point.......yes, I remember it well.....it IS my point.....perhaps you didn't look at it in the daylight.....

how about zombie bacteria......or at the very least, a carcass or two.....

why wait a couple hundred years?.....wouldn't it be smarter to look at those that fall more recently?.....

?....from your link......


is this you, relying on the science that exists?.....

We are talking about bacteria. They don't leave much of a carcass behind and their remnants are almost immediately absorbed by other bacteria. If they don't fossilize the chance that we will find anything is very small. Even if we did find them we would have to somehow prove they were not terrestrial.

Absolutely, this is me relying on the science that exists. The articles demonstrate the fallacy of your claim that we should have been able to easily find the signs of dead bacteria in meteorites that have fallen for the last two hundred years. It's not an easy task and though some will argue these signs have been found the evidence is not conclusive or compelling for the reasons I explained.

As was explained by the paper you did not read, we are more likely to find conclusive proof on other planets/moons where they won't be contaminated by terrestrial life. You now seem to be absurdly demanding that I defend this paper that you previously argued was science proving and destroying my beliefs in evolution. I don't intend to defend it. I don't know that they are right and I don't believe they have sufficient proof. I am simply pointing out why your criticisms are stupid.

[PostmodernProphet]

They don't leave much of a carcass behind and their remnants are almost immediately absorbed by other bacteria.

well fine, then we can look at THOSE bacteria....

If they don't fossilize the chance that we will find anything is very small.

I don't think things fossilize over a few weeks.....

Even if we did find them we would have to somehow prove they were not terrestrial.

of course you would....because the terrestrial bacteria would all have evolved, wouldn't they?.....

[Timshel]

well fine, then we can look at THOSE bacteria....

I don't think things fossilize over a few weeks.....

of course you would....because the terrestrial bacteria would all have evolved, wouldn't they?.....

The terrestrial bacteria would have evolved into what?

Look at the bacteria that MAY have absorbed the extra terrestrial bacteria? What good do you think that will do? The paper expects that the extra terrestrial bacteria should be similar in its makeup to what we find on earth.

Fossilize merely means that some remnant of the organism is preserved.

[PostmodernProphet]

The terrestrial bacteria would have evolved into what?

different types of bacteria.....

Look at the bacteria that MAY have absorbed the extra terrestrial bacteria?

is there no hope for the extra-terrestrial bacteria?......

Fossilize merely means that some remnant of the organism is preserved.

actually no....I expect you can find some remnants of last weeks road-killed possum that isn't a fossil......