Life on Mars (Martian Life, Alien Life, Extraterrestrials, Exobiology)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

Christianity, Science, Society & Culture, Documentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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For centuries, people have wondered whether there is life on Mars and NASA's 1970s-era rovers seemed to prove there was, but then doubts arose. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at whether there is life on Mars, how it would have got there, what it would be like.

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0:00.0	Jimmy Akin's mysterious world is brought to you by the StarQuest Production Network
0:04.4	and is made possible by our many generous patrons. If you'd like to support the podcast,
0:08.8	please visit sqpn.com slash give. Jimmy Akin's mysterious world is also brought to you in part
0:15.2	through the generous support of Aaron Ferguson Electric and Automation at AaronV.com,
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0:26.0	in North and Central Florida, previously on Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. The key moment happened
0:31.6	in 1976 when the U.S. probes viking one and viking two landed on Mars. As the mission was being
0:38.6	designed, the life-seeking experiments were selected, honed, and then picked apart to eliminate
0:44.3	all possibility the scientists would be fooled. The researchers were under no illusions about the
0:49.3	importance of the task. These experiments had the potential to revolutionize our view of ourselves.
0:54.8	Find life on Mars and our perspective would be altered suddenly and forever. The mission team,
1:01.2	together with Ford NASA appointed review committees, had agreed on what would constitute success. It was
1:06.8	only afterward after Gil Levin's experiment met the agreed criteria that they changed their minds.
1:13.2	And change their minds is what they did. Gil Levin's experiment returned positive results. It
1:21.9	behaved as predicted when they did the test again and they announced that they had found life on Mars.
1:41.6	You're listening to episode 180 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world where we look at mysteries from
1:47.3	the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking about whether life exists
1:53.9	on Mars. I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy. How do you dom?
2:00.8	Folks, be sure to stick around for the end of the episode as we'll have your feedback on our recent
2:05.6	episodes, two part episodes, on 9-11. But first, for centuries, people have wondered whether there
2:13.7	is life on Mars. For a time, many scientists were convinced that there is. Then this fell into doubt,
2:20.5	but now the pendulum's been swinging back the other way. Is there life on Mars? How did it get there?
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