Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens
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It does no such thing. All it proves is that all life on this planet likely originated from the same source, which was most likely a bunch of animo acids and proteins on meteorites.
.... or not.
No way. I bet they are octopods with antennae that carry 4961 different types of sensory organs, no brains, have titanium shells, jello muscles, and bones of transparent steel.
Superman.
No reason. But he was only suggesting that there was another possibility to the one you claimed.
He didn't. He just suggested another possibility.
That is only your limited interpretation. I say "limited" because there are other possibilities.
There is no doubt we were created. Doubt rests in the process. Evolution creates and creation evolves.
Absolutely, if the theory of contamination is correct (that life arose out of contamination, whether from a meteor, asteroid, or the remains of the picnic by an alien species) then all the life on earth is alien life.
However, that doesn’t mean that it will resemble any of the life on other planets. Thus, if life on earth is a result of contamination by the picnic, you may be sure that we look nothing at all like the aliens who came here for the picnic.
And why won't we have to worry about racism? And it will post a big problem for Evangelicals and indeed all the extreme right wingnut religions. Thus, did Christ die for the aliens, or did he die only for humans? If he dies only for humans, then the aliens are literally spawn of the Devil and must be destroyed.
My guess is that it will split the far right religions right down the middle. Some Fundamentalists will claim that Christ died for all the sentient beings, therefore aliens must be allowed to live and converted to Christianity. The other faction will claim that Christ did not die for the aliens, that aliens are all descended from Devil and must be utterly destroyed, must be wiped out.
It most certainly did. The point is, how did it originate in the primordial soup? that could very well have come from contamination from outer space.
There is no doubt in the process but there is doubt that the entire creation is exclusive to the parents. I''l try again. Evolution results in creations and those creations evolve more creations. Which came first the creations or the evolutions? And are children entirely the product of the parents? How much of the environmental factors at the time and the spacial position influence the creation of the offspring?
If life came from outer space, where did it start from? If life could start on another planet, it could just as easily have started on Earth.
You are quite right. 'Other world hypothesis' simply pushes the origin of life further back, it doesn't really tell us how life originated.
Saying that life originated on another world is astronomical solution to the problem, it is not the biological solution.
What would either a "biological or astronomical solution" constitute for the species? What would it mean to solve for these two unknowns? What does it mean to even think it possible?
Astronomical solution means you try to explain life in astronomical terms, how it migrated to earth from other planers or asteroids.
Biological solution means you try to explain life in biological terms, how it evolved from protein molecules, with the action of thunder, electricity etc. Biological explanation (when we find it) will tell us how life evolved. Astronimical explnanation merely pushes the origin of life back into the past,
Neither. Life always existed.
Well, they don't originate in nut trees, rocks, or flashlights.
Enough.
Wrong. It is irrelevant where the parts came from. If the conditions HERE were right to form life then that life HERE is indigenous. Only in an extremely remote sense is life alien: and that is only because Earth itself came from somewhere else. Earth came from a sun. Suns come from nebulae. etc. etc. Life born here is native.
Do you get your science from the same place eanassir gets his? It certainly seems similar.
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Here is a relatively new solution to the problem that shows some promise:
Origin of Life On Earth: Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Molecular Machine
I thought that sounded familiar. The idea was in Science mag, SciAm, or New Scientist last year I think. If it is true, it is the link between the pre-assembled parts of life and life.