University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Scientist's theory says clay was origin of life
By United Press International
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Life on Earth may have originated from ordinary clay, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported yesterday.
The "clay-life" theory proposes that the first primitive organisms, from which all species were formed, developed in clay rather than in a primorial chemical "soup."
The most widely held theory is that life originated when organic molecules rained into primitive oceans from an atmospheric soup of chemicals interacting with solar energy
The idea is that the organic molecules were patterned in clay by the minerals' molecular structures.
The clay-life theory is attributed to A.G. Cairns of the University of Glascow, Scotland.
THE NEW EVIDENCE supporting the clay-life theory is the mineral's special abilities to store and transfer the energy needed for the process of clay formation.
Highly energetic electrons possibly were captured by irregularities in the clay structure, which temporarily stored this energy. The energy then could move to the clay surface where it would be available to help form living organisms.
ornitho ting movement in clay was indicated by experiments showing that clay releases ultraviolet light in certain circumstances such as wetting and drying.
Coyne said clay might not be the only mineral capable of fostering the process of life formation but if it did, certain properties that might have helped.
These processes were discovered at NASA's Ames Research Center. The research team was led by Lelia Coyne of San Jose State University
The primordial soup theory, set forth in the 1930s by the Russian scientist A. I. Oparin, recently has been questioned.
The research suggests the ammonia and methane needed for the theory to work were not abundant in Earth's early atmosphere.
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