[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <69279.12436.qm_at_web55208.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

> ? ? ? 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


      
Received on Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:26:09 AM PDT