So what evidence must we explain? Here it is: The Mercury ice A
vast amount of it Organic material in the Mercury ice, that did
not form on Mercury. So: several comets, and maybe some water-
rich asteroids too, fell onto Mercury’s north and south poles.
And those comets and asteroids held organic matter. This begs
another question: where did objects like these come from? For
that we have two competing explanations: Panspermia (from the
Greek pas, pasa, pan all, every, etc., and sperma a seed) means
“seeding everywhere.” According to the panspermia theory, comets
and asteroids, or at least a significant portion of them, hold
the stuff of life along with their water. Some of these fell to
earth, and we are the by-product. Maybe some of the rest fell to
Mercury (and the Moon, and Mars). But this begs the question of
where the stuff of life came from, and how it could cross space,
subject to cold and radiation, and still “seed” the Earth.
Indeed, most evolutionists don’t believe this. They believe in
abiogenesis,