[muawiyah]

Not all that good an attack on panspermia ~ we already know that there are archaeobacter alive on Earth today living in solid rock. In fact, their combined mass exceeds the mass of all life on the surface.

Obviously they are pretty hardy critters.

Let's say Earth breaks up some day ~ the larger parts can fly off in all directions and after vast periods of time arrive somewhere else ~ those critters will still be alive and ready to do their thing.

The less fit critters on the surface will probably be destroyed by such an event.

Panspermia suggests that that live arrived at Earth in much the same manner, and may be still arriving in meteors and comets.

[freedumb2003]

My point is there is no relationship to abiogenesis (no matter how you think it happened or its relationship to subsequent events — a matter for another thread) and TToE than there is between abiogenesis and Astronomy.

This attempted linkage by people who refuse to understand science is a standard canard by Weekly World News and its sister publications like this one and AIG.

(waiting for the usual gang to stop by and start calling me names since that is all they have... please don’t let me down guys, since I can use a laugh while I relax here on a beach in sunny Mexico)

[freedumb2003]

I spoke too soon — I leave it to you to argue pansermia, since it is not really supported by the scientific community and is certainly not an area of expertise (even in passing) for me.

I just meant MY point is the source is blighted thus so is the analysis.

[GodGunsGuts]

Highly unlikely. And moreover, such an idea is still confronted with the same problem of life emerging from non-life on Earth. And finally, as with all other aspects of nature, the extremophiles are best explained by biblical creation:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v4/n1/discontinuity

[sauron]

Two SIGNIFICANT faults with the Panspermia idea:

1. TIME. Not enough of it. Calculate the subliminal speeds those rocks travel, and you'll find they're still far too slow to make it around the galaxy. Additionally, they've had to GET VERY LUCKY and "find" a planet to capture it/crash into. Infintessimally infintessimal odds of that, and, of course, not nearly enough time.

2. Logical fallacy of BEGGING THE QUESTION. Where did the first life come from? It wasn't seeded. Because of (1) and (2), it's far more logical to conclude that life arose here on Earth, by some means, Divine or...?