Phil, List
You said:
Science cannot define life using current materialist, reductionism,
physicalist methods. They think life, along with consciousness and
intelligence are just chance random byproducts of chance random
arrangements of organic molecules.
That is EXACTLY how science defines life.
All science is materialist, reductionism, and
physicalist. If you believe something else,
then whatever that thing is, it is NOT science.
Yet:
I'm not ruling out life elsewhere in the Universe, because according
to the laws of probability...
So, life can't arise by chance on OUR planet but
it CAN on some other planet. Would you explain
the logic of that to me? Or is our planet special?
2500 years of having the structure (and eventually
the workings) of matter explained by Leucippus,
Democritus, Epicurus, through Galileo, to Dalton,
Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, and hundreds of others,
and you still don't get it.
I'll give you a 2500-year-old quote that you can
repeat quietly to yourself until you DO get it:
"There are atoms and the void and nothing else."
Sterling K. Webb
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Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 1:50 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Don't Find Any Exobiology
Stuff
Mark,
I agree. It's becoming painfully obvious Mars has always been
lifeless. If it didn't happen there, where conditions were similar to
Earth, with all the right ingredients and parameters, then I wouldn't
hold my breath while looking for life in the rest of the Solar System.
Abiogenisis is an extremely rare thing, maybe even a singularity.
Science cannot define life using current materialist, reductionist,
physicalist methods. They think life, along with consciousness and
intelligence are just chance random byproducts of chance random
arrangements of organic molecules.
Trying to understand life by studying the physical properties of the
building blocks, where they came from, whether or not the early Earth
had a reducing atmosphere, etc., etc, is like trying to explain a Van
Gogh by microprobing his paints.
I'm not ruling out life elsewhere in the Universe, because according
to the laws of probablility, if something happened once, no matter how
weird, bizarre and unexplainable it was, there's a chance it will
happen again.
We'll know more in a million years.
Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
Look deep underground (tough to do from Earth)> - That's fine if
your looking for Earth style microbes, but until we even formally
define life (and not just some grey area about self reproducing
molecules) would we know 'it' if we saw it?
Seems to me if you chart the historical progress of the hunt for life
on Mars it's getting a bit thin and desperate, in 100 years we have
gone from theories of there being colonies of Martians with canals or
forests to a small chance there may still be a few microbes hanging on
deep underground near the equator, Nothing wrong with looking and we
should, but at some point in the near future we should probably give
up and start face to reality, and think about sending some resources
elsewhere - where frankly the chances are a looking little bit higher,
e.g Europa.
Mark
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[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Mulgrew
Sent: 14 March 2013 19:04
To: Sterling K. Webb; Meteorite List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff
Sterling,
Look deep underground (tough to do from Earth), any life remaining on
Mars will likely be found there.
Michael in so. Cal.
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