Comments on Article; "Why origins of life may lie in space" in Seattle Times, Jan 30, 2001;

This article makes some very unfounded claims (the actual science doesn't even begin to justify the article title.) The article jumps to conclusions based essentially on just the finding that certain molecular structures can exist in outer space.

The molecules found are not molecules which could only be generated by life.  The membrane type structures discovered in space are not even remotely like the complex and functional membranes needed for life in its simplest form.   The membranes of living cells are extremely complex as compared to what has been found in space.

The article is just almost certainly just another example of wildly exaggerated claims made by some scientists or their bosses to inflate the meaning and value of their findings and work so as to get more funding for their research.

This also may be another example of where science is finding it increasingly difficult to  explain the origin of life on earth and is trying to avoid that fact by shoving that problem off to the other side of the galaxy or the universe.  This is simply an admission that science does not have an explanation for the origin of life and wishes to push the truth about the limits of science to the other end of the universe as well.

What is the theory of the extraterrestrial origin of life?