RE: Evidence for panspermia theory

Oops! I need to make a four billion, nine hundred and ninety-five
million year correction. That should have been "billion" with a "b" in
my post. But you guys knew that, right?
 
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 billion 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
 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
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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 16:16:58 2006