RE: Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?
July 14, 2016 at 2:14 pm
(July 14, 2016 at 1:26 pm)madog Wrote: True .... bad example, but I still consider life came from non life, even if life came from another planet ....
But then it could be argued that that would just push evolution back to the point and place where non life became life .....
Yes - it seems likely, that life originated spontaneously from a combination of amino-acids, but we haven't yet been able to replicate, or observe that process. And we very well may never be, if it requires a very rare and particular set of circumstances, or a huge time-frame. Unlike with evolution - we don't have the luxury of archaeological evidence of early life, or abiogenesis.
If panspermia turns out to be true - for example, if we discover other life in nearby space - that will probably only complicate the issue, because it's difficult enough trying to learn and replicate conditions of one particular planet, billions of years ago. If early lifeforms or precursors of life came from somewhere else in space - well, that would mean, that circumstances necessary for actual creation of life may be different, than those present in Earths primordial soup.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
