> -----Original Message----- > From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 2:13 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Oh dear God no..... > > On Jan 4, 2008 9:04 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure what point your making if any but this is what I came up > with > > after reading it. > > > > ID doesn't claim to be deity based.
Of course not. But it is. The history of ID was well-documented during the Dover trail. > > Could be a far away experiment checking the nature of evolution with > > new life forms got lost in space and landed here. Pilots probably > long > > dead but lived long enough to find a hospitable planet to land on and > > let loose the experiment. Maybe not. The scientific reality may be different (life on earth could have been seeded from space) but the question is basically moot. If life arose elsewhere and was transplanted here then we've just moved the question from Earth to another planet. And if life arose elsewhere then why not here? There was a great article in a recent Scientific American about how alien life might/could coexist with us now. Life-as-we-know-it (and there's no reason to think that there can't be life-as-we-don't-know-it) shares many similarities even at the molecular level. Finding life which might appear to be exactly like us but which is different in some of those subtle ways would be a watershed moment. It might be a separate, independent line of evolution or extraterrestrial in origin or something else completely. In any case if we ever do find it it'll be god-damned interesting! All we really do know for sure is that chemistry does seem to gravitate in the direction of life. We find life in the harshest, most extreme environments. We find precursors of life (amino acids for example) in interstellar dust clouds for goodness sake! This stuff is NOT random but rather is dependent on some amazing rules of engagement. It's only a matter of time and effort, I think, before we find incontrovertible evidence of life on another planet in our solar system (I'm betting Mars or the clouds of Jupiter). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
