[meteorite-list] Next vacation: Rajasthan.

From: David Freeman mjwy <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jul 10 14:01:39 2005
Message-ID: <42D16281.8040908_at_fascination.com>

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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