WE ARE ALL DESIGNISTS NOW:

Asteroid Impacts Gave Crucial Spark to Early Life (Michael Reilly, Dec. 8, 2008, Discovery News)

Better known as end-bringers than life-givers, asteroid impacts may have forged the chemicals essential for life in Earth's ancient oceans.

Between 4.2 and 3.8 billion years ago, in a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, space rocks rained down on the planet 100,000 times more frequently than they do today. It would seem an inhospitable environment for life to take its first tentative steps.

But new research on the chemistry of this fiery onslaught suggests the impacts produced a host of carboxylic acids, amines, and amino acids -- essential compounds for building proteins, and a food source for primitive organisms.

No one believes life evolved Naturally anymore, do they.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 8, 2008 3:43 PM