Did life on Earth originate from outer space?

Research recently published in the journal Nature Communications has discovered the essential chemical components for life in meteorites that have fallen to the US, Canada and Australia, thereby helping to support the hypothesis that these objects space analogues may have reached Earth very early. 

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Specifically, during the research, scientists analyzed the materials of three meteorite fragments, including one that fell on the town of Murray in the US state of Kentucky in 1950, and one that crashed near the town. Murchison in the Australian state of Victoria in 1969, a piece fell near Lake Tagish in the Canadian province of British Columbia in 2000.

All three are spherical meteorites containing carbon, from a rock-hard material and are thought to have formed early in the history of the solar system. The meteorites are all rich in carbon, with the meteorite in Australia and the US containing 2% organic carbon by weight, while the meteorite in Canada contains about 4% organic carbon.

Carbon is believed to be the first component of living things on Earth. All three meteorites contain a complex mixture of organic molecules, with most of the components unknown.

Previously, scientists discovered that in these meteorites, there are 3 out of 5 chemical components needed to make DNA (the molecule that carries genetic information, which instructs how to make important proteins). for the growth and development of all living things) and RNA (molecule that plays an important role in controlling the activities of genes). On April 26, researchers announced that they had identified the last two chemical components after adjusting the method of analyzing meteorites.

According to the study's lead author, chemist and astronomer Yasuhiro Oba of the Institute of Low Thermal Science at Hokkaido University (Japan), unlike previous times, the methods used this time are sensitive. and does not use strong acids or hot liquids to extract the 5 components, also known as nucleobases (the building blocks of nucleic acids).

Nucleobases are nitrogen-containing compounds that play an important role in creating the characteristic helical structure of DNA. Two nucleobases, cytosine and thymine, newly discovered in meteorites can evade previous tests, because they possess a more fragile structure than the other three. However, these five nucleobases do not appear to be the only chemical compounds that play an important role in the formation of life. Other important components include amino acids, sugars, and fatty acids.

Study co-author Danny Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said that confirming the extraterrestrial origin of the complete nucleobase is found in DNA and RNA. further supported the hypothesis that meteorites may have been an important source of organic compounds needed to create the first living organisms on Earth.

The origin of man is not on Earth?

The origin of man remains the greatest mystery to mankind. While Darwin's theory of evolution has many loopholes and weaknesses in the face of growing evidence of the emergence of humans and prehistoric civilizations (before the present 5,000 civilization), species people are even more eager to learn to know where we come from.

Many people now consider modern science as truth unconsciously, but actually the word science comes from the Latin word, which originally meant 'education' . Education is the knowledge and knowledge that comes from studying. Thus, science (or education) is completely different from truth.

Dr. David Bohm (1917–1992), one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century, argued that starting at an early age, we learn to see the world through a certain frame of conceptions, so we often react immediately to each new experience, before even having time to think: 'In this way, we believe that certain ways of perceiving and perceiving the world are fixed, although in fact they have been examined and built up by us from an early age and become habits' .

In 'Special Theory of Relativity' , Mr. Bohm writes: 'A major difficulty in the development of new concepts… in the whole of science – is the tendency to cling to old concepts beyond the effective range. their force; This tendency is clearly enhanced by our habit of treating known entities and cognitive frameworks as if they had absolute permanence' . The scientist Albert Einstein also said that 'general ideas are just a series of prejudices that have been crammed into your mind before you turned 18' .

Theoretical physicist David Bohm insists that truth must be 'understood in a way that is intrinsically flexible, and that our knowledge of truth can undergo fundamental new developments at any time. Periodically, these developments may contradict the old cognitive framework in unexpected ways and contain unexpected new features. Just as in the case of relativity and quantum theory. the old ideas [Newton's theory] become completely false when they go beyond their ranges of validity' .

In fact, there have been a number of new studies and findings that give us clues about human origins.

In a book titled 'Humans Are Not From Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of Evidence' , Dr Ellis Silver, theorized that man's origins were not on the earth but on the earth. about some distant place in the universe.

In an interview, Ellis Silver said that the biological defects of humans "revenge" that they were not born on this Earth. 'Humans are the most evolved species on the blue planet, but surprisingly they are unsuited and weak to the Earth's environment: easily damaged by sunlight, especially do not like wild foods, with high high rates of chronic disease and more' . In addition to frequent back pain, possibly due to a species that once developed and evolved in a world with lower gravity than Earth, Dr. Silver also questioned the excessively large head size of babies when greeting. life, making mothers very difficult during childbirth, even death of both mother and child. Looking at other species on Earth, none have had such a problem.

Another human weakness: too easily sunburned. Humans cannot sunbathe for more than a week or two like lizards. In addition, humans are prone to diseases, possibly because the biological clock evolved to accommodate a 25-hour day (this has been proven by researchers) while a day on Earth has only 24 hours. , as sleep researchers have proven. 'This is not just a modern day problem, but has appeared at every moment in human history on Earth' .

In the book, Dr. Silver also mentions a particular point: many people often think that they do not belong to the Earth, and the Earth does not seem to be their home. 'This suggests (at least to me) that humanity may have evolved on another planet and we may have been brought to Earth by a much more advanced species,' he analyzed.

If previously other scientists had only mentioned that some bacteria had come to Earth from space, Chris McKay, a NASA astrobiologist, said the immediate conclusion was that humans are living creatures. The object of outer space is indeed a 'big leap' in the effort to find the origin of mankind.

According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, scientists have discovered that there are 19 DNA fragments, equivalent to 8% of our DNA, that are not of human origin. .

According to the researchers, 8% of this human DNA is made up of fragments of ancient viruses hidden deep within the genome, these genetic codes are known as alien DNA.

These strange genetic codes are not coded, do not come from any origin on Earth, and moreover, they do not have the usual evolutionary scheme like in human DNA. When the scientists immobilized them, the foreign DNA codes remained in place, unchanged.

Scientists suspect these alien genetic codes can store rare information about the universe, but currently the level of humans is still not enough to decipher this information.

These discoveries have led many people to think of the hypothesis that humans are immigrants from other places, still carrying in their ancient origins. Could that 'other place' be another planet, another celestial body, or maybe another dimension?

According to Buddhism, in the passage 'Initiation of Humanity' , Buddha Shakyamuni preached that: the origin of the first man on Earth was due to the people in the Quang Am Thien realm (6th of the 16 heavens). Form Realm) reincarnated after the Earth was formed. Thus, from the Buddhist point of view, the origin of human beings on this Earth is derived from another world in the universe.

According to Christianity, Judaism and some other religions, God based on his own form created Adam – the first man – from the 'dust of the earth' and breathed in to spread the word. live for Adam. Then God created Eve - the first woman from Adam's rib (perhaps Eve was also created by God in the form of goddesses).

In ancient Chinese legend, the goddess Nuwa was the one who created people based on her own appearance. She took 'earth' to cover the human figure and blew yang and yin in to create the first men and women on Earth.

Let's not judge these theories as right or wrong, let's make a little comparison. We see that the theory that God and Nuwa created man are almost similar, while Buddhism seems to be different. However, if we look a little closer, we find that the original beliefs and religions including Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Taoism all believed that consciousness or soul, or true primordial spirit. of man independent of his flesh. When people die, their consciousness/soul/primordial spirit will be able to reincarnate (reincarnation).

If God or Nuwa breathes air into human flesh so that they can become a real person as the process of giving a person's flesh a consciousness/soul/primary spirit, then that process is also equivalent to allowing the consciousnesses/souls/primordial spirits of beings in the Quang Am Thien realm to be reincarnated into the world. The consciousness/soul/primordial spirit of a person is the most important part, determining the existence of that person.

Thus, all three theories have one thing in common that human consciousness/soul/primordial spirit comes from higher beings or we can say that humans have their original origin from the universe. Humans will then receive 'some important properties' from higher beings, and maybe some of those 'properties' are the 8% of cosmic DNA that scientists have discovered. study discovered.

Of course, this inference also requires more research to prove it, but now there are many studies on consciousness, reincarnation, and reincarnation stories that have proven that the views of beliefs and religions The doctrine of the origin of man is not entirely ambiguous.

As long as we change our own concepts and attitudes, another open road will open up in front of us. It does not necessarily always go within the known framework of positivist materialistic science.