> Jed Rothwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Harry Veeder wrote: >> >> Personally I do not feel life BEGINS by chance, although the >> subsequent evolution is plausibly Darwinian. >> Perhaps an E.T. (not necessarily God) has been >> 'guiding' the evolution of life on this planet. > > I find this hypothesis intensely annoying! It does not solve the problem; it > merely removes it from our planet to some other planet. If ET #1 guided our > evolution, do we assume that some other ET (#2) was there to guide ET #1, and > did #3 guide #2? It is an infinite recursion. At some point, an intelligent > species must have arisen from purely natural causes without intervention by > any other species. Since it had to happen at least once, why shouldn't we > assume it happened again on earth?
Sure, but this does not rule out the possibility of an E.T. having played some other role in the evolutionary history of our planet. There is more to evolution then the evolution of 'intelligence'. Harry
