Well, there is the theory our DNA was brought to earth via a meteorite.

Why does no one ever pay attention to the fossil record...

I think its called the theory of panspermia, IIRC. It's an interesting theory, but it still doesn't really explain how abiogenesis occurred in the first place.

maybe because the fossil record is incomplete and inaccurate? not to mention the fact that most of our planet is covered with water making digging for the missing pieces impossible

every so often we unearth something that throws accepted theories for a spin...if this is true human remains then it does just that

I'm pretty sure mummification affects bone density, which is how they calculated its age, right? This likely isn't anything other than your "typical" mummified fetus.

EDIT: Yeah, http://paolov.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/atacama-alien-mystery/ when I googled "Atacama alien". Observe the warning if you're squeamish.

That's a fetus. And they miscalculated. It's obvious.

Yeah. Fossils are just for the show. The real deal is molecular biology. The current trend in evolutionary science are Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolution of development (evo-devo).

And every time they are proven hacks/false/insane or just plain idiotic. To get through the monolith that is the world's scientiffic community you need more than "I can dissprove Einstein, lol" bullcrap.

This does nothing. It's a journalistic bait, that we see now and again. Like with the 8th Noah's Ark found in Turkey, where that one was the real deal....yeah . It certainly looks like a miscalculation of the fetus age from a mile. A similar thing happened in the LHC a year ago, when they thought that they observed a particle moving faster and the speed of light and like with all of those baits it was proven false. They screwed up, which happens a lot.

And for all that is holy. Theory=/=hypothesis. A quote from the AAAS "A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world."

By definition. Panspermia, RNA-world, PAH world and Iron-Sulfur world are hypothesis.

I remembered that part about the FTL particle, I think it turned out to be that the particle (effected by gravity) was on a curved trajectory and appeared to get from point a to point b faster than light. Either way, blog science svcks.

my grandma had a calcified baby fetus somewhere

That's right. First rule of science. You can accept it as a fact only if there are one or more articles on the subject, one ore more anolysis of that article and a metanolysis of those on pubmed/Science/Nature etc. If not - It's bullcrap.