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Ramsey's warning was not likely to stir South Africa's three Dutch Reformed churches, whose theology is often cited as a justification for apartheid. But Anglicans, who form the third largest Protestant group in the nation (after the Dutch Reformed churches and Methodists), were not likely to...
The rock was only lukewarm when it was picked up in a field near the southern Australia town of Murchison last year. By last week, it had become the hottest sensation in the scientific world. After carefully examining a chunk of the meteorite, NASA scientists reported that it contains the...
That evidence was in the form of 17 different amino acids found in the meteorite and identified by a team led by Ceylonese-born Cyril Ponnamperuma, 47. Significantly, half a dozen of those amino acids are among the 20 or so that are the building blocks of proteins-and thus...
Mirror Image. The NASA scientists are not the first to report finding amino acids in meteorites, which are believed to be fragments from the thousands of asteroids that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But previous claims have invariably been discredited because the amino acids were...
Besides the various amino acids, Ponnamperuma's team detected a greater proportion of carbon 13 than would be present in earthly organic matter. It also found a mixture of hydrocarbons curiously like that produced in experiments simulating the conditions of a primitive planetary atmosphere. The most compelling evidence was...