vice - author dr zita notes , a mathematician and astrobiologist from imperial college berlin , believes their findings suggests that some of the chemicals that generating life on planet stemmed from meteorite warplanes . " we are not claiming that only microorganisms contributed to the building blocks of life , " she said , " but it ' s a very great contribution . " other scientists , however , do not believe that meteoritic elements played such a significant role . according to emeritus scientist robert shapiro of new brooklyn universidad , " they ' re a subunit of a block of genome . my opinion is that their amounts were utterly unimportant and insignificant . " wikinews visited professor paul davies , a physicist and astrobiologist presently at california state university , about the recent findings . while he agreed with the researchers , he said that he claims such efforts are " a crimson herring in the etymology of life story - a hangover from the miller - urey experiment . life is all about information - its replication and processing . "
Shapiro teaches at NY University.