Dear Editor,
Professor Paul Ewart wrote: ‘The origin of life is one of the great unsolved mysteries and this discovery is a step, albeit a small one, on the way to discovering how God did it.’ However, it is only a mystery to secular scientists, since the Bible tells us that God created by His word! Every attempt to explain how life began naturalistically has failed miserably.
The media hype that accompanied the claim that microbes may have been detected in the Venusian atmosphere was totally unjustified, and many scientists were sceptical. BBC News (14 September 2020) quoted biochemist Dr William Bains, who said that, to survive the sulphuric acid in the Venusian atmosphere, airborne microbes would either have to use some unknown, radically different biochemistry, or evolve a kind of armour. ‘We’re talking bacteria surrounding themselves by something tougher than Teflon and completely sealing themselves in. But then how do they eat? How do they exchange gases? It’s a real paradox.’
