[SolidWood]

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[laotzu]

some advanced creature from outer space may have seeded life on earth

Sex, sex, sex. Does everything have to be about sex?

Your father was a cosmic snow plow.

[I Buried My Guns]

The storyv I have heard repeated over and over regarding the origin of life on earth has to do with repeated lightning strikes on an Earth covered in nutrient-rich oceans. The shock of the lightning caused amino acids, present in the water, to align in a certain way, forming simple DNA patterns that then replicated and resulted in simple life forms.

Then, in the next scene, Fred Flinstone is sitting on a dinosaur, working in his quarry. That's quite a leap!

[mad_as_he$$]

Stupid movie moment and it dies not reflect the opinion of many scientists. There is a possibility that the amino acids required arrived by asteroid or some other space stuff. To ignore that possibility would be negligent. I think it is just as likely that they came off the boot of some traveler as other ideas - if you want to stick to evo that is.

[Locomotive Breath]

The correct answer is “I don’t know, but I don’t need to believe in a creation mythology to cope with the fact that I don’t know”.

[silverleaf]

Sir Frances Crick turned to a theory of “panspermia” when his work on DNA could not support spontaneous eruption of cellular life through natural processes and evolution

So that means these men of pure science deride the notion of a superior intelligence aka "god” for people on earth, but speculate that some alien race "evolved" without God and then seeded earth to start life?

[Grut]

It’s simpler (and therefore better logic) to say Life, the Universe and Everything ‘just happened’ than to say God ‘just happened’ and created it. There are good reasons to conclude God’s existence, but the ‘clockmaker’ argument isn’t one of them.

[weegee]

After sputtering for a few moments, Dawkins offers the thought that some advanced creature from outer space may have seeded life on earth

Funny, that's just what the Scientologists believe.

[DManA]

You can’t fool Dawkins. It’s turtles all the way down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t hold rational evolutionary scientists responsible for the idiotic rantings of Dawkins, who yes, said that he thought aliens started life on earth.

But Dawkins is still a highly respected member of the evolutionary science community.

[LiteKeeper]

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