Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by dhw, Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 16:36 (4937 days ago) @ David Turell

David has drawn our attention to an article in The Scientist concerning a giant marine virus. Quite apart from the extraordinary nature of these viruses and their effect on life, I was struck by the following sentence:-"Once thought not to exist in marine environments, scientists now realize that there are some 50 million viruses in every milliliter of seawater."-Oops! Slight oversight! So what else have they missed/are they missing? And what will they have discovered a hundred years from now? People can only base their beliefs on what they know today, but if you add the unsolved mysteries (e.g. origin of the universe and life, nature of consciousness) to current 'truths' that may well turn out to be false (e.g. aspects of evolution, the material make-up and history of the universe), it's amazing that people can commit themselves to any sort of definitive ...ism. When they discover that dark energy is in fact BBella-energy, will she get her Nobel Prize?