Researchers looking for signs of life elsewhere in the universe often start by looking for one key ingredient necessary to complex life as we know it: water. And just 750 light-years away, they’ve found quite a bit of it spewing from the poles of a young, sunlike star that is blasting jets of H2O into interstellar space at 124,000 miles per hour.
This discovery is interesting on a number of levels. For one, it indicates that throughout the universe young protostars could be distributing vast quantities of water, potentially seeding life elsewhere.
via www.popsci.com
One of the key premises of the contemporary design argument is that the conditions required for life to emerge as so improbable that they must have been fine-tuned by a supernatural, intelligent designer. But findings like the one above as well as here on Earth suggest that the conditions required for life are not as narrow as traditionally thought.
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