[silverleaf]

Thanks for the article.

Interesting character, Francis Crick, who unraveled so much about DNA. He was an atheist, spent his entire science career, even switched disciplines, searching to prove scientifically that DNA design and evolution did not need or infer a Creator. The more he discovered about DNA, the less plausible his position became.

Eventually he devolved into a theorist and came up with "panspermia" to try and explain the mysterious coded "seed" that starts the process of life.

[MHGinTN]

Just finished an excellent book on the topic of 'the case for a Creator'. You would enjoy it, I'm certain: Lee Strobel, The Case For A Creator, from Zondervan. Crick was so devoted to deny God that he choked on all the evidence for design in the creation.

[muawiyah]

"Panspermia" refers only to the idea that life is exceedingly ancient, originated somewhere else, and arrives here from space.

Given the incredible depth of code available in DNA, it's entirely possible that life is so ancient that it originated in a distant universe that has not existed for trillions of eons.

The competing doctrine is that of "little Earth" ~ where, it's believed that life arose as a consequence of natural processes we can all understand, and that it "evolved" in the last half billion years (after 3.5 billion years of no change whatsoever) into a plethora of critters.

Panspermia says nothing whatsoever about evolution, per se. "Little Earth" doctrines require evolution.

So far, neither view has been demonstrated to be true or false.