>>If one did, I doubt he'd be listened to, because he would have no evidence.
>> Evolutionists theorizing about the development of life on earth have the
>>fossil record and existing life on earth to study and gather evidence from.
>> An evolutionist claiming a fossil had been transported from Alpha Centauri
>>would have no evidence to back up his assertions.
Moorad wrote
>I found the following in the October 6, 1998 issue of the Christian Science
>Monitor.
>
>
>New Major: University of Washington Offers Astrobiology
>
>Want to spend your life searching for space aliens? The University of
>Washington says it has a place for you. The school says it has received a
>five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to set up
>an astrobiology program so people can major in the science of searching the
>universe for other forms of life. It would be the first specific program in
>astrobiology.
>
It would be interesting to see how the report in the press compares -- or
fails to compare -- with the course syllabus. A course in astrobiology
could deal with the constraints on life as we know it, and what places in
the universe might satisfy those constraints. Or it might consider where
life could occur if some of the constaints were relaxed. But a newspaper
writeup is likely to be pretty inaccurate, even in a generally reputable
paper like CSM.
But I agree that such a course offering sounds pretty speculative. Still,
it's not an indication of how all evolutionists think. In order to have a
theory of evolution in another solar system gain any credence at all, I
would think a researcher would have to be able to present evidence that
life exists on that planet and evidence that its development has followed
an evolutionary path. IOW he's have to have fossils and descriptions of
contemporary life on that planet, as well as evidence that his evidence
actually originated on the planet in question. A pretty tall order, I
think.
Bill Hamilton
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