Re: Evidence for panspermia theory

Does this hypothesis (because its not a theory at all) really help biology or science at all? Even if its true that we find primitive cells on comets or in red rain or whatever who can say that life didn't start here as well as other places? Is this really science or an athiest God of the Gaps hypothesis?

~Matt

 
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  From: Dick Fischer
  To: ASA
  Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:23 PM
  Subject: RE: Evidence for panspermia theory

  Hi David, you wrote:

  It certainly takes astonishing faith to believe the panspermia theory!

  Leaving out the how or when, let's just say God created life - somehow, somewhere. Is there any problem with his having created life initially on an earlier planet circling an earlier sun? The universe is 13.7 billion years old. Our sun is no more than 5 million years old. That's a lot of time for lots to happen in between. Stars were born. Stars died. Stars have planets. Who can say life was created here on this planet for the first time? That's all.

  Dick Fischer

  ~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association

  Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

  www.genesisproclaimed.org

  -----Original Message-----
  From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Bundrick, David
  Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:36 PM
  To: Janice Matchett; drsyme@cablespeed.com; asa@calvin.edu
  Subject: RE: Evidence for panspermia theory

  "When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, 'I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith'" (Matt. 8:10). It certainly takes astonishing faith to believe the panspermia theory!

  As an astronomer friend of mine has said, "One of the reasons that Anthony Flew rejected atheism a few years ago was because of the total failure of numerous scientists around the world to create life spontaneously in a laboratory, under the most ideal conditions. This quest, which has gone on for 24 hours each day for more than 50 years, has produced nothing. Flew was honest enough to see the handwriting on the wall. But, such a conclusion is simply too repugnant for the naturalist, because it necessitates a creator."

  David Bundrick
Received on Tue Mar 7 14:50:49 2006