It Came from Outer Space? Astrobiologist: Not Likely

Episode 1527 November 08, 2021 00:17:49
It Came from Outer Space? Astrobiologist: Not Likely
Intelligent Design the Future
It Came from Outer Space? Astrobiologist: Not Likely

Nov 08 2021 | 00:17:49

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez and host Casey Luskin discuss the idea of undirected panspermia. Gonzalez explains the basic idea and what the best current evidence says about its plausibility. The occasion is his chapter on panspermia in the new anthology A Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Undirected panspermia is the idea that the first life on our planet came from outer space, carried by chance processes from a faraway living planet on space dust, asteroids, or comets either from within our solar system, or from another star system to here. The idea of panspermia was inspired by the extreme difficulty of Read More ›

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