[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

[Becky and Kirk]

Rob,
       You are certainly entitled to your own view----as I am.
No reason for you to be curt though----as you say.
Have a nice day!
Kirk.......
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob McCafferty" <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com>
To: "Becky and Kirk" <bandk at chorus.net>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!



> To me---believing that all life has
> originated here on Earth and then
> spread out from here is like saying that the Earth is still
> the center of
> the solar system or Universe. And----we don't believe that
> anymore, now do
> we??
>

That is not what Mark said and to imply that he did is insulting of the 
intelligence of anyone with a reasonable grasp of scientific method.
You are entitled to believe what you like but remember that it really is 
just a belief.

If you are going to insist on panspermia being anything other than another 
crackpot idea dreamed up by people who prefer conspiracy because the 
alternatives is unpalatable to them then show me the evidence.
Not the junk you find on youtube posted by idiots, proper evidence, peer 
reviewed in reputable journals with scientifically reproducible results.

Mark stated (quite clearly, I thought) that all life on earth gan be 
genetically linked to earth and it seems far more likely that it began here 
where conditions are ideal than it being delivered here by something else.

I am not sorry about the curt nature of this response. I grow weary of a 
discussion that has people on one side unwilling to accept science, its 
methods and its process.
Believe what you will. Nothing I could say would make you change your 
viewpoint. This sort of idea always seems to possess immense inertia.

Rob McC