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Astrophysicist, Hugh Ross, Ph.D., Predicts in 1988, That Life will be found on Mars

As early as 1988, Hugh Ross, Ph.D. predicted that we would discover life on Mars.

The Following come from Hugh Ross, Ph.D., "The Creator and the Cosmos", Copyright 1993 by Reasons to Believe. Revised edition, copyright 1995. NavPress, p.154-155. This was three years prior to the meteorite that was discovered to have come from Mars. In 1988 he also made the same prediction.

Life on Mars?

Though I'm convinced that the origin of life defies a naturalistic explanation, I am expecting that life, or the remains of life, will eventually be discovered on Mars. Mt reason has nothing to do with spontaneous generation. It has everything to do with Mars' proximity to Earth.

In 1989, on ABC's "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, two astronomers and a science journalist declared that the discovery of life on Mars would provide virtual proof that life does indeed originate and evolve, and quite easily; by natural processes. Here is their line of reasoning: So far, we know of life's existence on only one planet orbiting one star out of ten-billion-trillion stars in the cosmos. If life is found on Mars, we would know it exists on two planets, but not just any two planets, two planets orbiting the same star. Instead of just one life site out of ten-billion-trillion candidates, we would have two life sites out of nine (the nine planets of our solar system). Such a finding would suggest that life is abundant throughout our universe, abundant by spontaneous generation.

By faulty reasoning and failure to acknowledge relevant data, these influential men are setting the audience up for deception. The remains, at least, of many micro-organisms are likely to be found on Mars for no other reason than that Mars is only thirty-five-million miles away from Earth. In other words, these zealous evolutionists, bent on searching for life on Mars, seem to ignore important facts about the transportability and survivability of Earth life forms. Consider the following data:

1. Balloon missions flown in the 1960s found an abundance of microbial life at altitudes ranging from 30,000 to 130,000 feet.
2. The solar wind is capable of wafting tiny life forms (sizes ranging from 0.2 microns to about 1 micron) outward through the solar system and perhaps beyond.
3. Many micro-organisms can be keep at liquid air temperature (about -200 degrees Centigrade) for more than six months without losing their capacity to germinate.
4. Several microbial species exposed for five days to the vacuum conditions of outer space did not lose their viability.
5. Some microbes are capable of absorbing 600 kilorads of x-ray radiation without losing their viability.
6. Even very tiny amounts of graphite (of which there is more than an adequate supply in outer space) will protect micro-organisms from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
7. Meteorites large enough to make a crater greater than 60 miles across will cause Earth rocks to escape Earth's gravity. Out of 1,000 such rocks ejected, 291 strike Venus, 20 go to Mercury, 17 hit Mars, 14 make it to Jupiter, and 1 goes all the way to Saturn. Traveling the distance with these rocks will be many varieties of Earth life.

Thus there are many reasons to believe that millions of Earth's minute creatures have been deposited on the surface of Mars and other solar system planets.

Admittedly, conditions on Mars are unfavorable for the germination of such life except for only the briefest of moments. A liquid drop of water on the Martian surface, for example, evaporates in less than a second. Thus, living "adult" organisms should be quite rare on Mars. But, we should not be surprised to find considerable quantities of spores and the remains of biological material.

The discovery of microbial life and creatures perhaps as large as nematodes on Mars -a discovery we can expect as technology continues to advance- will probably be touted as proof of naturalistic evolution, when in truth it proves nothing of the kind. It will prove something, however, about the amazing vitality of what God created.

For updated information on this report see report;
Martian Meteorite Shows Signs of Life On Mars?
By Hugh Ross, Ph.D.

References from Hugh Ross:

-Hugh Ross, Ph.D., "The Creator and the Cosmos", Copyright 1993 by Reasons to Believe. Revised edition, copyright 1995. NavPress, p.154-155.

-Hugh Ross, "Life on Mars as Proof of Evolution?" Facts & Faith, 2:3 (1988), pp.1-2.

-Hugh Ross, "Life on Mars Revisited," Facts & Faith, 3:2 (1989), p.2.

- Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, "Evolution from Space", (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), p. 39-61.

- Iosef S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, "Intelligent Life in the Universe", (San Fransico, CA: Holden-Day, 1966), p. 207-211.

-The item on meteorites came from a report of computer analysis that was presented at the Twentieth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (1989), Houston, Texas.