NASA finds more evidence of life carried by Comets!

Those seeking to bridge the divide between science and religion might want to throw a playful wrench into the idea of intelligent design as it appears the great Deity was hurling iceballs through the universe to see what stuck.

NASA scientists have recently discovered “organic compounds associated with cellular respiration” in meteorites, adding fuel to the theory that life on our planet was delivered from the heavens.

Fragile organic compounds associated with the citric acid cycle that allows cells to harvest the energy they need to grow required certain conditions to make the trip to Earth successfully, so scientists are recreating conditions in the lab to test how this could have occurred.

Although many water-soluble organic compounds have been detected in carbonaceous meteorites, they never included keto acids and compounds similar to citric acid – some of which are critically important to biological processes, such as glycolysis and the citric acid cycle.

These processes are considered among the earliest in the evolution of life.

Not exactly what folks had in mind with the whole man-made-in-the-image-of-God thing, but it might make those kids terrorizing the neighbourhood this winter with handmade missiles of frozen destruction a bit more tolerable to think of their inspiration as divine.