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Sankar Chatterjee, Horn Professor of Geosciences and curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University believes he has found the answer by connecting theories on chemical evolution with evidence related to our planet’s early geology.
Meteorite bombardment left large craters that contained water and chemical building blocks for life, which ultimately led to the first organisms.
Thanks to regular and heavy comet and meteorite bombardment of Earth’s surface during its formative years 4 billion years ago, the large craters left behind not only contained water and the basic chemical building blocks for life, but also became the perfect crucible to concentrate and cook these chemicals to create the first simple organisms.
He will present his findings Oct. 30 during the 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
As well as discovering how ancient animals flew, Chatterjee discovered the Shiva Meteorite Crater, which was created by a 25-mile-wide meteorite that struck off the coast of India. This research concluded this giant meteorite wreaked havoc simultaneously with the Chicxulub meteorite strike near Mexico, finishing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Ironically, Chatterjee’s latest research suggests meteorites can be givers of life as well as takers. He said that meteor and comet strikes likely brought the ingredients and created the right conditions for life on our planet. By studying three sites containing the world’s oldest fossils, he believes he knows how the first single-celled organisms formed in hydrothermal crater basins.
“When the Earth formed some 4.5 billion years ago, it was a sterile planet inhospitable to living organisms,” Chatterjee said. “It was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors and hot, noxious gasses. One billion years later, it was a placid, watery planet teeming with microbial life – the ancestors to all living things.”
Recipe for Living
As the basins filled, volcanically driven geothermal vents heated the water and created convection. The result was constant water movement, creating a thick primordial soup.
Credit: Texas Tech University
“For may years, the debate on the origins of life centered on the chemical evolution of living cells from organic molecules by natural processes. Chatterjee said life began in four steps of increasing complexity – cosmic, geological, chemical and biological.
In the cosmic stage, a still-forming Earth and our solar system took a daily pounding from rocky asteroids and icy comets between 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago. Plate tectonics, wind and water have hidden evidence of this early onslaught on our planet, but ancient craters on the surfaces of Mars, Venus, Mercury and our moon show just how heavy the meteorite showers once were.
Larger meteorites that created impact basins of about 350 miles in diameter inadvertently became the perfect crucibles, he said. These meteorites also punched through the Earth’s crust, creating volcanically driven geothermal vents. Also, they brought the basic building blocks of life that could be concentrated and polymerized in the crater basins.
After studying the environments of the oldest fossil-containing rocks on Earth in Greenland, Australia and South Africa, Chatterjee said these could be remnants of ancient craters and may be the very spots where life began in deep, dark and hot environments.
Because of Earth’s perfect proximity to the sun, the comets that crashed here melted into water and filled these basins with water and more ingredients. This gave rise to the geological stage. As these basins filled, geothermal venting heated the water and created convection, causing the water to move constantly and create a thick primordial soup.
“The geological stage provides special dark, hot, and isolated environments of the crater basins with the hydrothermal vent systems that served as incubators for life,” he said. “Segregation and concentration of organic molecules by convective currents took place here, something like the kinds we find on the ocean floor, but still very different. It was a bizarre and isolated world that would seem like a vision of hell with the foul smells of hydrogen sulfide, methane, nitric oxide and steam that provided life-sustaining energy.”
Then began the chemical stage, Chatterjee said. The heat churning the water inside the craters mixed chemicals together and caused simple compounds to grow into larger, more complex ones.
Credit: Texas Tech University
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Most likely, pores and crevices on the crater basins acted as scaffolds for concentrations of simple RNA and protein molecules, he said. Unlike a popular theory that believes RNA came first and proteins followed, Chatterjee believes RNA and proteins emerged simultaneously and were encapsulated and protected from the environment.
“The dual origin of the ‘RNA/protein’ world is more plausible in the vent environments than the popular ‘RNA world,’” he said. “RNA molecules are very unstable. In vent environments, they would decompose quickly. Some catalysts, such as simple proteins, were necessary for primitive RNA to replicate and metabolize. On the other hand, amino acids, from which proteins are made, are easier to make than RNA components.”
The question remains how loose RNA and protein material floating in this soup protected itself in a membrane. Chatterjee believes University of California professor David Deamer’s hypothesis that membranous material existed in the primordial soup. Deamer isolated fatty acid vesicles from theMurchison meteorite that fell in 1969 in Australia. The cosmic fatty bubbles extracted from the meteorite mimic cell membranes.
“Meteorites brought this fatty lipid material to early Earth,” Chatterjee said. “This fatty lipid material floated on top of the water surface of crater basins but moved to the bottom by convection currents. At some point in this process during the course of millions of years, this fatty membrane could have encapsulated simple RNA and proteins together like a soap bubble. The RNA and protein molecules begin interacting and communicating. Eventually RNA gave way to DNA – a much more stable compound – and with the development of the genetic code, the first cells divided.”
Sankar Chatterjee is the curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech and a Horn professor in theDepartment of Geosciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. -
“These self-sustaining first cells were capable of Darwinian evolution,” he said. “The emergence of the first cells on the early Earth was the culmination of a long history of prior chemical, geological and cosmic processes.”
Chatterjee also believes that modern RNA-viruses and protein-rich prions that cause deadly diseases probably represent the evolutionary legacy of primitive RNA and protein molecules. They may be the oldest cellular particles that predated the first cellular life. Once cellular life evolved, RNA-viruses and prions became redundant, but survived as parasites on the living cells.
The problem with theories on the origins of life is that they don’t propose any experiments that lead to the emergence of cells, Chatterjee said. However, he suggested an experiment to recreate the ancient prebiotic world and support or refute his theory.
“If future experiments with membrane-bound RNA viruses and prions result in the creation of a synthetic protocell, it may reflect the plausible pathways for the emergence of life on early Earth,” he said.
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Why haven’t they recreated evolution in a controlled or simulated environment? Oh thats right because it takes MILLIONS and BILLIONS of years, how convenient. Why is it we see species DECLINING and not evolving? Why do we not have ‘links’ from one species to another instead we offer 1/3 #at best# of a skeleton and make claim and worse yet believe these claims of a link between some kind of previous ape like animal and humans? Why is this not happening on other planets around us where there has been recent discoveries of possible ‘life’. Supposedly earth was uninhabitable until all this banging smashing and explosive actions started life reactions.
For RNA to just ‘be’ and start life does not make sense. WHY? Why would RNA just fly on a rock into our planet where would it have come from? What would be it’s purpose to begin with?
Why do we not see life evolving around us now? Why do species go extinct? We see mutations for adaptions and even the survival of the fittest but have no hard substantial evidence of evolution STILL?
I just don’t understand it as everyone else does. :C
3 toed skink. currently in the process of going from laying eggs to giving live birth. at present can do either. look at that. all it took was 30 seconds worth of actual research and an actual desire to learn something.
If someone wants to overcome their ignorance & really learn something about this topic, they need to start at a site like http://www.darwinsdoubt.com/ and hear what Mr Meyer has to say. Nobody seems to be able to deal with the facts he talks about so far.
Well, science is not supposed to be about proving there is no God or no Creator. Science is about TRUTH, whether it supports one view or another, right? That means, IF there is indeed a Creator, then people just need to deal with that as fact. The only alternative would be to willingly embrace a lie while pretending it is true…just out of stubbornness. Science is about truth, not about trying to make up stupid ramblings simply because some people don’t want to acknowledge God or a Creator existing.
Btw, some who believe in creationism do not necessarily say it has to be God as we know it or assume from our cultural viewpoint. So many believe in advanced life being out in space that the U.S. govt has made efforts regarding that idea. Why then think that any such beings could not restructure or clone beings, perhaps making them better or weaker, altering them or building them up in genetic engineering? So, to reject creationism in favor of a nonsense evolution theory denies the very idea of advanced life out there that is greater than humans. This means we hypocritically spend big-$$ on total nonsense…or there is a God, one or the other, and both of which need to be considered since Darwinian evolution is nuts.
The ONLY thing going for this article is the image of an amazing crater. A ‘standard’ lunar/ planetary crater (with the central tip of original material left standing). Of course this is NOT caused by a meteor or any object for that matter. Like 99% of craters in this solar system it is obviously an Electrical Discharge Machined (EDM) anodic shape. I put a little Wiki How for you to try here: http://www.wikihow.com/Etch-Your-Own-Crater?
We’ve been lied to by geologists for too long. The only theory of the Earth’s origin that works is the Electric Universe model. Now if there’s electricity floating around in the early days then I can see plenty of opportunities for species changes – not necessarily origins though??
It’s kind of ironic that they use a religious myth to refer to their pseudo-scientific myth. Even more ironic that there is more evidence for the holy grail than there will ever be for evolution.
Today’s lesson on word origins: SLIME-BALLS — people who ridiculously believe their ancestors were spawned in a pool of slime.
Read Genesis 1:1. It’s that simple. But don’t stop there. I am blown away at how our so called “scientists” are apparently and willfully ignorant of the complexity of the functioning of the human body and all life: it is too intricate for evolution. Evolution only always provides more questions, but never any answers because there ARE NO answers for it. Our bodies have a lot of the same minerals that are found in soil/dirt. Equilibrium for example: this is the in-body functional process of keeping cellular activity/division/reproduction in order, so that other processes of the body and mind can begin or cease in order that other functions can then begin or cease. Each cell within our bodies and minds have a certain job to do a specific times. DNA and RNA. The common cold is a DNA-type virus meaning that is why we know cures and medicinal remedies for them because DNA always repeats itself according to it’s pattern. RNA, however, is a “chameleon” and constantly randomizes, which is why many of the sexual diseases out there have no cure as of yet until there “sequential code” can be broken. So then, evolution is indeed wrong still. If evolution were true, then it is not intelligent at all because it would supply it’s “children” with the cures and remedies that they need to survive. It has no intelligence….save only the blind morons who believe in it; and even these very quite often recant their ignorant findings that they pull from the anus of ignorance. But why people would rather choose to believe in what fails and has no depth nor core explanation is an even greater mystery.
Stupid people will believe anything some one in science says .. Sound more like Scientology to me …
And stupid people will believe anything an ancient book says to.
” He said that meteor and comet strikes likely brought the ingredients and created the right conditions for life on our planet. By studying three sites containing the world’s oldest fossils, he believes he knows how the first single-celled organisms formed in hydrothermal crater basins ”
In other words, much like another famous ” THEORY “, they both are ” SWAGs ”
Scientific Wild Ass Guess’s.
Yet he likely doesn’t have enough FAITH to believe in God, if this is true: he therefor is an OXYMORON.
And an Oxymoron does not a science make.
God bless
Stēkō Parrēsia
Creationists and Evolutionists, the debate goes on. How about this? Why couldn’t the Great Spirit use evolution, trans-spermia as a way to to start/create life on our planet?
Just asking.
Their god is called, chance, somehow, nature, etc. Just stand in substitute for God since they cannot teach religion in school and get away with it.
Don’t be fooled. They are teaching religion, their style.
It is very easy for Sankar Chatterjee to sit back and start fabricating in his mind how all these things supposedly evolved or happened.
He can not offer any proof to his theory, that is all he has, a theory.
Where did these fatty acids come from? Who made those? Who made the molecules, the energy, the atoms? Just keep going back and back the question remains: Who made all this that exists?
There is only one definition of “Science” that withstands every test and we must demand that everything foisted upon us in it’s name be given this test.
Science is that which can be proven repeatedly. Mayhem
Yeah … And I can throw a bag of trash out of an airplane and in a billion years have a wrist watch … What a load of dirt
The religion of evolution.
At least it has EVIDENCE.
All these fancy words, meteors, asteroids, etc., can not create life. There is only one word which created life and that was “BE” by the Almighty Creator.
There is a well developed theory by Dr Thomas Gold that the first life began within earth. First life used chemical reactions instead of photosynthesis to create energy. Basically they live on methane and other hydrocarbons. This life can be seen deep in the ocean at vents where methane and other gasses are expelled and a variety of life exists. There are other examples. Read the reviews of his book on amazon: The Deep Hot Biosphere. It will change the way you look at how earth formed as well as all forms of petrolium (natural (gas), petrolium (liquid), and coal (solid)).
Silly Sankar. I have sent him to bed without his chapatti. When he apologizes for telling all his naughty lies, I may let him out of his room for half an hour and give him a samosa.
Look.
To have a living creature, even just a single-celled organism, you need at least 100 fully-functioning proteins, all present at the same time, and each separated by different subcellular compartments, depending on what they are supposed to do. None of these proteins may have mutations in them; it is very well established that ALL mutations are deleterious, and most are fatal. Thus the Darwinian narrative which invokes mutational changes which are then acted upon by the environment is a non-starter. Changes from perfection are neither encouraged nor allowed. Huge amounts of energy are expended by the cell to prevent and address any change to the original format.
All of these proteins must interact with each other; that’s what proteins do, they recognise each other, so the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. A cell is a fully-integrated WHOLE, not just a random collection of proteins. Do you know that a protein is not only specified by the order of aminoacids it contains, but how these amino acids fold up? Unless they fold in the right way, they do not work. There are special chaperone proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum whose job is to make sure that an aminoacid string folds up in the right way; if it does not fold properly, it is taken apart and recycled. But there is more. A properly-folded protein frequently has a space in its structure, at its active site, which clearly has to be specified by the DNA which coded for it originally. Thus DNA is coding not just for aminoacid sequence, but for spaces too. Into this space is attracted a metal ion, so the space has to be the right size for the appropriate metal ion and no other, eg in haemoglobin, the ion is an iron atom, but the space also has to have the correct charge, either positive or negative.
It may have struck you that even if all of the above criteria are successfully addressed, the cell will still not be alive and able to replicate, ingest, excrete, respire, etc. A dead dog has all the right cells and tissues and organs, but it is still dead. Life comes into this structure from elsewhere, and animates it.
For all the claimed wisdom of science, its exponents will never understand the simplest yet most profound of all truths, which is very simple, and very straightforward, but hated all the more because of this.
That truth is that “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth”, and then continues thus,
“And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul”.
Herein is everything you need to know.
yah right lol
I quote from Trey Smith (godinanutshell.com) “Did you know that “evolution” likely would not have gotten into public schools without the massive help of the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church…. They were responsible for helping pitch “Piltdown Man” — a famous fraud that lasted 30 years…… It was a clever combination of a human skull and an Orangutan jaw…. To today’s date there are ZERO “missing links” out of millions of bones found across every part of the planet earth.
Lucy (often claimed as a “missing link”) is a small monkey that was found in 1967 with a completely crushed skull (perfect for making human-like recreations) –> as well as missing hands and feet. It was claimed that — had there been hands and feet, they would have been human-like…. Of course today more than 40 monkeys (Australopithecus) like Lucy have been found in Africa… All with little monkey heads, monkey hands & monkey feet. –trey smith”
There are more in depth information, references, video, audio and such in his youtube video. Just search on youtube, ‘Trey Smith Evolution’.
oh you screaming terrified children. so frightened that the universe might be bigger than one book’s worth of fundamentally flawed concepts written long long ago by people that most of you cannot stand to this day. if your god was still capable of talking to mankind i’m pretty sure his first words would be “GROW UP”. all this arguing and infighting about which of two opposing concepts is the correct one is laughable. especially when it’s abundantly clear most haven’t the slightest clue about the fundamental nature of either. me? i’m going to be the bigger man and simply say, “science is still growing, and i would NEVER be so arrogant as to say i know the true nature, motives, or capabilities of any possible god.”
Here is the truth on how life was created here on earth. Life here on earth was created by God alone. Proof. One of my uncles was dying and told his family that he would show he lives even thro his body had died if he can from the other side. He told his family he would light the light in his wife’s (my aunt) bed room after he dies if it is possible. 2 days after his death the light in her bed room lit by it’s self. Now if that isn’t enough for you? 6 weeks ago my mother was diagnosed with liver cancer. We here children spent as much time with here as we could. The doctor told us there was nothing they could do as it was so far advanced. The priest gave her the last rights. She told us she would light a light for us. 5 weeks later she died and we buried her last Tuesday. Thursday night 2 days after she was buried my brother walked into his house and there was a light flickering that had not work for some time. He said there is mom lighting the light. The light stopped flickering and he can not turn it on. The light does not work anymore. God created it all and there is life after death for Gods people. Believe what you want but this is the truth!
http://ogspics.wix.com/beholdgiants
The Biblical View – God’s Intelligent Design
The LORD made ALL things; He stretched forth the heavens ALONE; He spread abroad the earth BY HIMSELF (Isa.44:24, Gen.2:3-5).
There is no new thing under the sun (Eccel.1:9); it has been already of old time been done, which was before us (Eccel.1:10).
NOTHING can be put to it, nor can anything be taken from it (Eccel.3:14); that which has been is now and that which is to be has already been (Eccel.3:15).
By Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him (Col. 1:16):
Wisdom was with the LORD in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. The LORD possessed Wisdom; Wisdom was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was (Prov.8:22-23).
When there were no depths, Wisdom was BROUGHT FORTH; when there were no fountains abounding with water; before the mountains were settled, before the hills Wisdom was brought forth (Prov.8:24-25).
While as yet He (the LORD – Prov.8:22) had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world; when He prepared the heavens, Wisdom was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth; when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep. When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth, then Wisdom was by the LORD as one brought up with Him: and Wisdom was the LORD’s delight daily, Wisdom rejoicing always before Him. (Prov.8:26-30).
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The latest in the stupidity & nonsense of God-hating liberals.
Part of the problem with it all is that even if taking the Darwinian evolutionists’ word on the age of the earth,….there is simply not enough time for all the evolution to have taken place from way back then up ’til now in order to get life forms as advanced and varied as they are currently — that is, via evolution. Aside from that, there is data involved in communicating things from one generation to the next that is outside the actual DNA-coding itself, so any DNA changes would not be able to affect those.
When you begin to alter wiring & circuitry, figuritively speaking, in cells and biology, you get a great big mess. It is like making random changes in a working computer without knowing what you are doing — hmm, snip a wire here, break off something there, etc. Chances are that it is only going to screw things up, not make it better. In fact, the chance that such kinds of random changes happening that actually improves the system as a whole is astronomical and makes Darwinian evolution begin to stink to more & more scientists, now. The more they learn, the more many of them are realizing this all took intellect to construct creatures that are so highly complex.
All the “Evolution” prattling does not address the real problem, either: to evolve, you have to have something living to begin with, and they cannot make even that first step except to babble about what is essentially hocus-pocus, like saying “The Easter Bunny did it!” or “The toothe fairy came & made it and it then evolved from there.”
Speaking of meteor & comet strikes, maybe that explains the seeming dischord between science & the biblical view of the creation account based on “days”. Consider whether a huge meteor or comet strike at the proper angle could possibly change the rate of rotation on the earth’s axis. Could the days of the biblical creation account could have been much longer, then sped up after one of more such collisions. Since the “experts” vouch for the fact that there WERE such collisions of high-impact upon the earth, maybe it changed the length of earth’s days.
Sure! That’s coming from another “respected” scientist!
NB. See “respected”. Like “respected” politician, “respected” journalist, “respected” academic & least but not last “respected” homo-paedophile!
Good questions: i’ll check back and see if anyone can quantify this silly notion that is evolution.
Has anyone ever heard of one species becoming another species i.e. frog “evolving” into a bird?? This is not possible. Species adapt, sure but change species……. I don’t buy it.
There really isn’t any, even carbon 14 dating relies on assumptions that are not proven and its performance is very eradicate. What’s ironic is how evolution has become the religion of choice among atheist’s who have in turn forced it into the school systems in exactly the same way that christians did when they were allowed to have a say, and I’ve never met an atheist who doesn’t hate God. I suspect a large part of the studies done that prove evolution where funded by oil companies in the early part of the last century in order to give credit to the idea that oil and gas are both exclusively the result of fossil fuels and therefore not renewable and far more valuable. If that’s true we wouldn’t find so much methane on other planets, so there is a natural process that produces massive amounts of hydrocarbons and the best theory I’ve come across on that is the abiotic theory of oil. We don’t refer to the gas methane very often, here on earth we call it natural gas.
the other rather obvious problem is, if we evolved from fish, slime or monkeys….then why are fish , slime and monkeys still amoung us? evolution is just a theory riddled with big holes and only a fool would take it seriously, no way we are a freak of nature, first off the planet is not old enough to spawn life that way, would take infinitley longer for all the genetic mistakes to happen to have us, and secondly humans and dogs cats cows roses and a host of other life forms just appeared in the fossil record seemingly over night. so that quashes that idea
Speak for yourself.
Well now, Stēkō, there are micro organisms (building block thingamejigs) landing here any time any part of a Comet makes contact. There’s also the distinct possibility of slow speed entry, and therefore assimilation by our atmosphere, of any gases and vapours given off as Comets tend to do. The trick is for our planet to fly (?) through a Comet tail.
I tend to think that this is how new bugs (viral) get here. So this part of the story has merit and the notion is merely being used to lend credence to the Evolution hogwash.
It’s how lies are best couched, innit?
How does your post always remain as the last word?
i get the impression you don’t know what the terms species or evolve mean. go check them out. i’ll wait.
this was meant as a reply for bearman, but didn’t post that way.
Maybe we should throw some gold up on the table for that too.
There’s certainly no shortage of CLAIMS to evidence and CLAIMS of salamanders morphing into rhinoceros…
But, as is par for the course with this brood and their science of subterfuge,…
…they’re a little short on evidence.
Question: Would we even be having this conversation if actual evidence in support of the theory of evolution existed?
Another question: Why can’t some evolutionist or other produce the COUP DE GRAS once and for all, and slay any and all pesky arguments against this so-called empirical system of fact?
More good questions. We are a bit short on answers all the same.
@cleric451 you lost me; are you for evolution or creation?