| March 4, 2004 My latest published letter (Washington Post Express) --I don’t know, I guess I figured NASA and the media were blowing their latest finding way out of proportion and were speculating way too much with the limited, yes limited, data we have so far. Not only do comets readily distribute large amounts of water (the second most abundant molecule in the universe) across the universe, Mars has a permafrost layer many magnitudes deeper than Earth (subterranean water is plausible). Evidence of past water on Mars is almost a no brainer when you use statistical analysis. The problem I have is them completely speculating, without evidence of the hundreds of other criteria independent of water necessary for life sustenance, that life existed or exists there. I know they're not claiming anything like intelligent life exists or existed, but speculating any form of life existed is very audacious to say the least...from a scientific point of view. No doubt the speculation is based in an atheistic naturalistic evolutionary model agenda...but we won’t get into that. It’s painfully obvious though. Anyways, I’m glad they published my little letter to the editor. I think too may laypeople just accept what the news and scientists tell them as fact because they seemingly have no intellectual device to sift between science fact and science fiction. So many scientists’ theories are taken as fact (Darwin’s theory of naturalistic evolution being one) by the general public because they’re just simpletons who only care about getting home in time to watch American Idol and call their significant other later on whom they expect they’ll marry one day and life will be fine and dandy and “complete” then...fools. People think cause they don’t have a degree in astrophysics that they have no capacity to learn at least an elementary knowledge of the subject. Anyways, here’s the article. I posted my original submission below. |
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| Let's put the evidence of past water on Mars discovery in perspective folks. Water is the second most abundant molecule in the universe and it's apparent past on Mars should come as a suprise to no one. Also, water is merely one of many requirements for life, not the only one. Researchers have identified more than a hundred different requirements, independent of water, for life to exist on any given planet in any given planetary system. Kudos to NASA and their missions, but let's not confuse science fiction with science fact just yet. |