Canada space mission targets asteroids

02 May 2008

 Canada is planing to launch a small satellite “costing a mere $10 million” to search for asteroids between the earth and sun. Their hope is to be able to find some that one day we could land on and analyze. Asteroids are of great interest to some because they have the presupposition that “many asteroids are leftovers from the original material of the solar system”.

 Evolution teaches that asteroids created the earth. Creation allows the possibility that the earth created the asteroids. If the asteroids were launched from earth when the “fountains of the deep” broke open then we would expect that they would contain rocks and elements similar to that found in the crust of the earth. Water is also very abundant on earth and yet almost nowhere else in the solar system.

 If we ever get to analyze the water on an asteroid it is likely that it will contain life that is similar to what is found in water on earth. Scientists will gleefully exclaim that life came from space on asteroids.

A few problems:
 - How did water evolve in space?
 - How did life evolve in space in the first place?
 - How did it survive impact?
 - If this life was launched off some other planet, why could it not have originated from our planet?

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