fellow - author dame anne-marie martins , a chemist and astrobiologist from university college paris , believes their reports suggest that some of the chemicals that generated life on jupiter came from meteorite bombardments . " we are not suggesting that only meteorites contribution to the founding blocks of creation , " she said , " but it ' s a very substantial contribution . " other scientists , however , do not accept that meteoritic chemicals played such a significant function . according to emeritus professor mark shapiro of new jersey university , " they ' re a unit of a subunit of genome . my opinion is that their amounts were utterly banal and insignificant . " wikinews contacted university paul hanson , a physics and astrobiologist presently at oregon state university , about the recent claims . while he consulted with the findings , he said that he thinks such discoveries are " a red thread in the origin of life mythology - a heartache from the mueller - urey accident . existence is all about data - its construction and reduction . "
Shapiro teaches at NY University.