A continuation on the topic in the above post:
Life on earth was supposed to have been seeded from the stars. What if life was originally silicon based because of these extraterrestrial minerals? Carbon-based life as we know it today was "post deluvian."
Building blocks for life found in meteorite
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/ ... news/1412/
Meteorite Minerals
http://earthsci.org/fossils/space/crate ... ineral.htm
Classification of Meteorites
http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/english ... cation.htm
Silicon-based life forms
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=386410
1) Silicon based life: Chiral liquid crystal polymersTo be silicon based would involve some form of crystalline life - maybe using carbon as a skeleton or defense material?
Chiral Liquid Crystal Polymers
http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/5156
Molecular Engineering of Liquid Crystal Polymers by Living Polymerization
http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=get ... =ADA242400
2) Carbon as a Skeleton: Fullerines
Buckminster Fullerine C60
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/ ... bucky.html
Fullerene Compounds with Organic Crystalline and Liquid-crystalline Substances
http://vs.ioffe.net/iwfac/2005/abstr/iw ... 92_141.pdf
Liquid crystal DNA points up new scenario for first life
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/liquid-c ... 14867.html
Inorganic life
http://everything2.com/title/inorganic%2520life
Why are there so many creation myths where a god formed humans out of clay?What is the connection between a virus and a crystal? Well, sometimes a virus is a crystal. They can crystallise and (as far as I know) still be infectious afterwards. Indeed, biological crystallography is based on the idea that proteins crystallise (and diffract) just like minerals. So what's the difference between a protein crystal and a salt crystal?
So is it at all possible to have mineral organisms? Well, there is (at least) one feasible hypothesis that involves quite complex inorganic crystals and mechanisms for their replication and selection. This mineral is clay: or structures like it. Clays form a heterogeneous group of crystal forms that are relatively sensitive to environmental conditions for their growth. They also 'breed' by breaking in half to form two new crystals. Their shapes are heritable, in the sense that the grain pattern templates new layers with the same pattern. Like stacking carpets according to the direction of the arrows woven into them.
Anishinaabe
http://www.billcasselman.com/unpublishe ... inaabe.htm
Of Men and MudOne striking feature of the Adam and Eve creation myth in Genesis is the pottery metaphor: a god formed humans from clay or dust. This is a worldwide element in creation stories.
http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA0301/menMud.html
Nuwa makes men and mends the sky
http://www.chinavoc.com/history/ancient/myth_nw.htm
The African Origin of the Myths & Legend of the Garden of Eden
http://www.africawithin.com/jgjackson/j ... origin.htm
Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
http://www.philae.nu/akhet/PtahCreator.html
Men and Women of Greek Mythology: The Story of Prometheus
http://www.paleothea.com/Men.html
Myths and Legends
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter23/text23.htm
Creation Myths
http://physics.mercer.edu/balduz/sci105 ... thsF07.htm
Orpheus: Myths of the World: Central American & Mexican
http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/omw/omw80.htm