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Posted by David on October 12, 2009, 6:53 am, in reply to "There`s some cynics"
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of bacteria elsewhere. There are ten times the number of bacteria cells as human cells within the human body. We vaccinate the body against bacteria per se. Yet it is the exception where the human body does not function properly finding some effective symbiotic relationship with these "aliens". I understand that a child is born with next to no gut bacteria. That it is arguably necessary for the mother to allow the child until approximately age two to come into direct contact with external bacteria.
PANSPERMIA There is argument that earth`s life was seeded by microorganisms from outer space arriving via meteors. If true, it makes the Genesis creation story a little different (less grand) than Michelangelo depicted so magnificently on the Sistine Chapel roof.
Alternatively,was life sparked from some" primordial soup" and evolutionary processes carried on. Given that bacteria can survive in extremes of hostile conditions . They are ubiquitous and can be traced within viz. acidic hot springs, sea water, the earth`s crust.
Other beneficial functions of bacteria
(1) Researchers are using bacteria in the production of electricity for fuel cells.
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(2) Mineral crunching micro organisms help leech certain valuable minerals eg copper in cheaper and more environmentally acceptable ways than conventional means.
(3) Bacteria convert bio-diesel waste into valuable chemicals
(4) Finger printing of cultivatable bacteria as a potentially valuable indicator of soil perturbation.
(5) Certain Streptococci are necessary agents in the fermentation and souring of milk (to produce by-products)
(6) Transformation of ferulic acid by soil bacteria provides various valuable phenolic compounds.
Does the lay world give adequate credit to this amazing catalyst? No doubt the scientific world does. What about the fundamentalist reasoning of the religious fraternity?
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