Maybe Mars is Too Toxic

Reading Focus in Creation magazine Vol. 29 No. 1, I found an excellent item about the toxic state on Mars.

Dust storms on Mars appear to be creating a 'toxic snow' of bleach-like chemicals, making life impossible on that planet's surface. Two NASA-sponsored studies have found that the often-seen 'dust devils' and planet-wide storms on Mars could generate a raft of corrosive chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide. Blanketing the Martian surface, these would render the soil sterile.

This new finding might explain the conflicting results when NASA's Viking landers tested Martian soil for sign of life in the mid-1970s. One instrument found nothing. but another recorded that when nutrients were added to Martian dirt, the nutrients were broken down - an indication that microorganisms might be present. But now researchers say that the presence of hydrogen peroxide in Martian soil 'could have fooled the Viking instruments by producing reactions similar to that expected by microorganisms.'

For Christians, the accumulating evidence that life is absent elsewhere and that extra-terrestrial environments are uninhabitable ought to be no surprise. It was the Earth that the Creator formed to be inhabited and it's that the entire heavens will be destroyed by fire (2 Peter 3:7-12).

In is stark contrast, it's no wonder that researchers with an evolutionary mindset continue to eagerly probe for evidence of ET life, believing that if life evolved on Earth, why not elsewhere?

Thankfully we can still get great nutrients on our earth. Even though these days the nutrients are not as good in fruit and vegetables sixty years ago, we do have scientists who have discovered ways of overcoming this clamity. Early research by Mannatech on glyconutrients (the necessary sugars) suggests that by adding glyconutrients to the human diet there is an increase in optimal health and wellbeing.