[meteorite-list] Next vacation: Rajasthan.

[Dawn & Gerald Flaherty]

I too. Jerry
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From: "David Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Next vacation: Rajasthan.


> 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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