I am saddened when bright people fall for quackery. Conan Doyle was taken in by a couple of teenage girls and their pictures of garden fairies. The psychologist William James was sucked in by a medium, whom he labeled the white crow.
In my lifetime I have seen large numbers of people taken in by plants with feeings, pyramid power, Atlantis in beach stone, and a dozen others.
I always associated this with left wing, new age hippie thinking, but I will have to re-evaluate this.
The intent of my post was not to endorse or debunk their work but to evidence what their work entails vis-a-vis science.
I get somewhat amused at the notion of aliens seeding life on this planet - but for researchers such as Crick, this was the best explanation.
It is what it is.
The point of defining panspermia/cosmic ancestry and collective consciousness on this thread is to determine whether the definition fits the definition of an intelligent design hypothesis.