{"id":152949,"date":"2022-12-16T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-theory-suggests-that-the-origin-of-life-on-earth-like-planets-is-likely"},"modified":"2022-12-16T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:25:00","slug":"new-theory-suggests-that-the-origin-of-life-on-earth-like-planets-is-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-theory-suggests-that-the-origin-of-life-on-earth-like-planets-is-likely","title":{"rendered":"New Theory Suggests That the Origin of Life on Earth-Like Planets Is Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-suggests-that-the-origin-of-life-on-earth-like-planets-is-likely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to a recent paper by a math professor at the University of Arkansas, the existence of life on Earth provides proof that abiogenesis is relatively easy on planets similar to Earth, refuting the \u201cCarter argument\u201d conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does the presence of life on Earth provide any insight into the likelihood that abiogenesis\u2014the process by which life first emerges from inorganic substances\u2014occurs elsewhere? That is a question that has baffled scientists for a while, as well as everyone else inclined to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent paper by a math professor at the University of Arkansas, the existence of life on Earth provides proof that abiogenesis is relatively easy on planets similar to Earth, refuting the \u201cCarter argument\u201d conclusion. Does the presence of life on Earth provide any insight into the likelihood that abiogenesis\u2014the process by which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}