On 12-25-97 Mark Bloss wrote to David Martorana... 
 MB>  But we push life's catylyst off on some other world, some other 
 MB> eco-system 
 MB>  much different than our own.  But why not?  We do the same thing with 
 MB>  our evolutionary speculations, pushing back the origin of life on our 
 MB>  reluctant would-be "ancestor", the cyanic bacterium. 
Even more primitive: the prion.  Which, Mark, is not a life form; 
it has no DNA.  It *is* a molecule.  In the right circumstances, 
it is a catalyst... those circumstances now being recognized in 
the so-called 'mad cow disease', in which the catalysis creates 
even more prions, which continue to replicate, in, pardon my pun, 
but a very life-like way. 
 
Similarly in the deep ocean vents, where we find a very complex 
community of life forms which are not based on solar energy and 
oxygen, which was once argued by creationists as being essential 
for the creation of life, even though the geologic record showed 
that the planet at the time evolutionists said it was, was not a 
hospitable place for life forms *as they were known at the time*! 
 
Now, it does not look like Venus ever had, or ever will support 
any form of life we can imagine... although god only noze.  But, 
we do see the likelyhood of an ocean beneath the ice on Io. BTW: 
is it prophetic that the only other place we see water was named 
after the daughter of a Greek river god?  And, knowing what we 
do now about the suphur dioxide based ecology of volcanic vents, 
and seeing the volcanic activity on Io, hmmmm. 
 
The question is not whether God made life anymore.  It is did God 
make *anything*?  In the story line of the universe Creationism... 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * makes as much sense as a eunuch in a porn flick. 
--- Maximus 3.01
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