{"id":3669,"date":"2008-06-13T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/heavenly-origin-of-life-and-doritos-customers\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:34:00","slug":"heavenly-origin-of-life-and-doritos-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/heavenly-origin-of-life-and-doritos-customers.html","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Origin of Life (and Doritos Customers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0503\/ngc2170_seip_f56.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0503\/ngc2170_seip_f56.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoffeeweb.com\/images\/chips-doritos.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"142\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecoffeeweb.com\/images\/chips-doritos.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:180%\">It is interesting to note the literally out of this world news that has appeared recently\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, there are early reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/news_releases\/confirmed_genetic_material_in_meteorites_is_extraterrestrial_in_origin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scientists have confirmed the extraterrestrial origin of organic molecules in a meteorite<\/a>, suggesting that, however much progress may be made <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/the_origin_of_life_on_earth_ne.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">research on how life may have formed <em>on earth<\/em><\/a>, it may be necessary to look to <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingfarther.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/09\/map-o-heaven\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">heaven<\/a> (er, I mean, the heavens) to account for some steps in the process.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/offbeat-news\/breaking-the-ad-thats-going-into-space\/1286\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">advertisers<\/a> are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/space\/2008\/03\/is-nowhere-safe-from-advertising.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">looking to the skies<\/a>\u2026for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.earthsky.org\/lindsaypatterson\/bizarre\/0310135\/doritos-ad-directed-at-distant-planets\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doritos customers<\/a>. This is of course a natural progression for capitalism. 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