Panspermia? (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, April 11, 2011, 14:11 (4975 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: There may well be life on Mars:-http://procrustes.blogtownhall.com/2011/04/10/et_and_the_strange_behavior_of_dr_jekyll_...-Thank you for this extraordinary article. Assuming it's true ... and the author can look forward to paying out a nice fat sum for libel if it's not ... yet again one can only gasp at the egotism and ethical corruption at the heart of so many human institutions. -However, I was also struck by a very different issue. For some reason, the author thinks that life on Mars would be an embarrassment to the Darwinists and a triumph for the Designers. Why? From my position on the fence, life in outer space proves absolutely nothing either way. Even if they found advanced forms, one could still argue that (a) God would naturally have conducted more than one experiment, or (b) if life and evolution arose by chance here, life and evolution could arise by chance elsewhere. The Panspermia theory just spreads the argument across a wider field.