Posted by David Stephens on June 15, 1998 at 21:20:43:
In Reply to: Deist or Agnostic ? posted by Pierre Charles on June 15, 1998 at 19:15:33:
: What I believe is that humans scientists from another planet have created us in laboratories and were taken for "Gods" because they were coming from the sky in luminous flying machines.
Suppose for a moment that we humans wanted to spread life to other planets. Getting ourselves, or some other man-created life form from earth transplated to another world would seem to be a rather difficult and pointless effort. Wouldn't it be easier and more effective to send out many "life starting amino acid kits" on asteriods? We could design a "life kit" to carry whatever we found to be the minimum building blocks for life, and on impact with another world the 'kit' might hopefully bootstrap the beginnings of life on that planet. From that point the environment of the planet itself could evolve the specific life that would best survive there (no more help required from us at all).
This 'blind' creation process seems rather simple and elegant to me--no space ships, faster than light travel, nor complex creatures designed to live on a foreign planet required. However once you accept this idea of allowing life to evolve on it's own, isn't it possible that humans don't even need to create and design these asteriods? Perhaps these asteriods already exist in the universe. Perhaps that's how life on earth began. Perhaps the assumption that "design" is required for life in the universe isn't a valid assumption?
Just thoughts.
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