[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

[Jerry Flaherty]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/is-life-hardwired-into-the-universe-some-experts-say-yes.html
Life hardwired into Universe [at least the one we know about--Universe 
thatis]

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From: "Rob McCafferty" <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:26 AM
To: "Becky and Kirk" <bandk at chorus.net>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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
>
>
>
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