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[David Freeman mjwy]

Dear Doug, List;
Here is a little quote I have found quite interesting....
"There is a grandeur in this view of life, with it's several powers, 
having beeen originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into 
one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the 
fixed laws of gravity,  from so simple a beginning endless forms most 
beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved".....
Charles Darwin's last words in the "Origin of Species By Means Of 
Natural Selection" circa 1859.

I revel in the use of "Creator" and "evolved" being so closely used in 
the same paragraph.
To our Florida friends "DUCK"!
David F.

MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:

>Manoj P. wrote:
>  
>
>>I do not buy that story of " Life could  have
>>originated outside earth." This theory was originally
>>raised  by Sir Fred Hoyle and Professor Chandra
>>Wickramasinghe of University  College, Wales.
>>Their publications included ``Diseases from Space''  
>>(1979)...
>>    
>>
>
>Hola List & Manoj,
> 
>Please don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, Manoj.   Wickramasinghe, 
>who had the opportunity to study with Fred Hoyle, is a  contemporary, though 
>more limited, Sri Lankan version of what Carl Sagan  was to the world.
> 
>Carl Sagan certainly published his thoughts on panspermia before the  
>gentlemen you mention, and probably is still the most influential voice for  
>panspermia even after his passing.
>
>Manoj, the theory of life originating  outside of earth was not originated by 
>the recent nebular life  origins extremists Chandra with Fred's support.  It 
>goes back at  least to the ancient Greeks.  Anaxagoras a bit after 500 BC, a 
>meteoritical  expert at the time (and tutor of Diogenes), discussed panspermia.
>
>The  Swede Svante Arrhenius wrote, the same year he won the Nobel prize in  
>chemistry:
>"The Propagation of Life in Space", Die Umschau, 7, p. 481 (1903),  which 
>integrated the panspermia theory into a relatively rigorous format.   (What Hoyle 
>and Wickramasinghe have been erroneously given credit for by you and  others).
>
>Irish-born Lord Kelvin in 1871:
>...we must regard it as  probable in the highest degree that there are 
>countless seed-bearing meteoric  stones moving about through space....When two great 
>masses come into collision  in space it is certain that a large part of each 
>is melted; but it seems also  quite certain that in many cases a large 
>quantity of debris must be shot forth  in all directions, much of which may have 
>experienced no greater violence than  individual pieces of rock experience in a 
>land-slip or in blasting by  gunpowder.... The hypothesis that life originated 
>on this earth through  moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may 
>seem wild and  visionary, all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
> 
>Hope this helps.  It cracks me up to always see new guys voming along  and 
>taking credit for ideas that are ancient.  What's worse is when others  start 
>repeating these claims!
>Saludos, Doug
> 
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