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Also Try Astrobiology News -12-11-05 Life Began in Space? (Scientific American) "Louis Allamandola and his colleagues at the NASA Ames Research Center have created primitive cells of a sort—empty, two-layer membranes (see image)—from elementary chemicals, exposed to conditions like those in interstellar clouds. 'Scientists believe the molecules needed to make a cell's membrane, and thus for the origin of life, are all over space,' Allamandola says. 'This discovery implies that life could be everywhere in the universe.' " 12-05 Papers Astrobiology Definition (Astrobiology.com) "Astrobiology seeks to understand the origin of the building blocks of life, how these biogenic compounds combine to create life, how life affects - and is affected by the environment from which it arose, and finally, whether and how life expands beyond its planet of origin. None of these questions is by any means new - but for the first time since they were posed, these questions may now be answerable. Astrobiology seeks to provide a philosophical and programmatic underpinning whereby life's place in the universe can be explored - at levels of inter-related complexity ranging from molecular to galactic." 02-06 Debate on the Chemical Origins of Life (LiveScience.com) "Instead of complex molecules, life started with small molecules interacting through a closed cycle of reactions, Shapiro argues in the June issue of the Quarterly Review of Biology. These reactions would produce compounds that would feed back into the cycle, creating an ever-growing reaction network." 01-07 How Did Life Originate on Earth? (LiveScience.com) "Earth is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old, and for much of that history it has been home to life in one weird form or another." "Indeed, some scientists think life appeared the moment our planet's environment was stable enough to support it." 12-05 Intelligent Design as Science (Wikipedia.org) "Despite ID sometimes being called Intelligent Design Theory, the National Academy of Sciences has said, intelligent design 'and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life' are not science because their claims cannot be tested by experiment and propose no new hypotheses of their own, instead they find gaps within current evolutionary theory and fill them in with speculative beliefs. The scientific community does not recognise ID as a scientific theory and considers it to be creationist pseudoscience." 8-05 Life May Originate in Space (CNN) Provides results of a study that indicates that cell-like membranes "self-assemble" in space and could be precursors for the development of life. 1-01 Worlds in Our Solar System Where Life Might Exist (Space.com) "But science grooves on surprises. And one of the big surprises of the past few decades is the discovery of worlds that are warm despite being situated in places where the Sun doesn't shine. Consequently, there are now more than a half-dozen objects among Sol's minions that are considered possible hosts for life." 08-07

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