From: Terry Blanton
http://www.starchildproject.com/ Terry - This is not very convincing to me, even if it were not an Anniversary occasion - simply because it still assumes too much - including for starters that good old DNA is the only (or even the best) way to code for life. In fact, there are numerous other ways - even on earth. Why would anyone expect "aliens" to have our exact kind of double helix DNA at all? It would be most unlikely that they would. And the differences that are showing up in this particular skull are trivial compared to say - finding triple stranded DNA or GTUC subunits. There is also a fair chance that alien life will be based on silicon instead of carbon, so some combination of the two. Our DNA employs GTAC subunits, but there are many different coding proteins - depending on what is in the "primordial soup" of the other planet. There are 21 amino acids on earth and all of them can code when polymerized into single, double, or triple strands. In fact, triple stranded DNA would have its own survival benefits. Actually, as we know - RNA on earth is already different from DNA in using a different subunit in the coding, and the permutations go well beyond that for ET. It has been proved in the lab that alternative or artificial nucleic acids - called "ANA" or "XNA" - where x= xeno, can replicate and evolve, just like DNA and RNA. Therefore - It is reasonable to assume that life on Earth evolved from GTAC combinations in a double helix pretty much by chance, based on the available amino acids and other survival parameters at the time - and that identical conditions would be unlikely to have happened elsewhere. In short, there are a multitude of ways to code for life, so finding the exact kind of DNA almost guarantees that this is NOT alien life. In contrast, what is needed for real proof of alien visitation? - well, it would be most convincing for someone to show skull tissue that was coded with XNA, instead of GTAC-DNA or was triple stranded or so on. The laws of probability almost demand that there will be fundamental differences. Jones
