Sunday, May 7, 2023

Creation Moment 5/8/2023 - They Scratch Ligtning Off Their List Now......

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.... Romans 1:22
 
"A stormy, active sun may have kickstarted life on Earth (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2 May 2023). Why are they hopeful in the silence? It’s largely NASA’s fault. NASA has pushed
astrobiology for decades, and was in cahoots with SETI believers since the 1960s, until they were shamed out of the tinfoil-hat look of SETI in the 1990s and switched to “astrobiology” instead.
The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed thanks to eruptions from our Sun, a new study finds. A series of chemical experiments show how solar particles, colliding with gases in Earth’s early atmosphere, can form amino acids and carboxylic acids, the basic building blocks of proteins and organic life. The findings were published in the journal Life.
---As we have stated many times, amino acids are simple and easily formed according to thermodynamics and known chemical laws. But they are as far from life as tar is from a jet airliner.

The article reviews the old Miller-Urey spark discharge experiments and admits that Miller used an implausible atmosphere. Lightning was not available in that atmosphere, and it was likely not reducing enough for prebiotic chemicals to form. But solar protons have more energy and are more efficient at producing amino acids.
All else being equal, solar particles appear to be a more
efficient energy source than
lightning. But all else likely wasn’t equal, Airapetian suggested. Miller and Urey assumed that lightning was just as common at the time of the “warm little pond” as it is today. But lightning, which comes from thunderclouds formed by rising warm air, would have been rarer under a 30% dimmer Sun.
During cold conditions you never have lightning, and early Earth was under a pretty faint Sun,” Airapetian said. “That’s not saying that it couldn’t have come from lightning, but lightning seems less likely now, and solar particles seems more likely.”
These experiments suggest our active young Sun could have catalyzed the precursors of life more easily, and perhaps earlier, than previously assumed.
*Think of the possibilities: protons erupting from the sun hit the early Earth and created amino acids, which created cells, which created multicellular organisms, which evolved to crawl onto land and become reptiles and mammals which, through millions of years of mindless accidents, developed into scientists writing about life by chance – a proposition absurdly improbable to the extreme. But this is the proposition that motivates Astrobiology and SETI." CEH