Life on Mars came from Earth…

I’ve often heard the theory that life on Earth came from outer space and according to some specifically from Mars. But I never really thought of the opposite scenario – that bacteria found on Mars could just as well have come from Earth. It’s more probably anyway.

I got the following from another blog. Unfortunately the article ended up being somewhat of a Creationist propaganda, which is a pity as I would have liked a more unbiased reading. But then again, it’s not as if most of the scientific community is unbiased when it comes to the whole evolution vs creation drama.

Recently, the headlines are filled with statements from NASA that soil on Mars may contain microbial life. What if this is true after all? Would such a discovery confirm evolutionary theory? No.

First, such a discovery would not prove that such life had evolved from non-living matter by chance natural processes. And even if we do find evidence of life on Mars it would have most likely have come from our very own planet - Earth!

In the Earth’s past there was powerful volcanic activity which could have easily spewed dirt containing microbes into outer space which eventually could have reached Mars. A Newsweek article of September 21, 1998, p.12 mentions exactly this possibility.

“We think there’s about 7 million tons of earth soil sitting on Mars”, says (evolutionist) Kenneth Nealson. “You have to consider the possibility that if we find life on Mars, it could have come from the Earth” [Weingarten, T., Newsweek, September 21, 1998, p.12]. Furthermore, MIT scientist Dr. Walt Brown (a creationist) in his book In The Beginning points out that during the great Genesis flood, as recorded in the Bible, the fountains of the deep that were let loose could have easily spewed out meteors and meteorites into space that very well may have contained micro-organisms such as bacteria.