Re: Scientists Say Life Originated on a Comet
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Scientists say life was a SEPTILLION times more likely to have begun within a comet rather than on Earth.
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Man. Just when I was completely convinced it was multiverses. Guess ol' Crick wasn't totally loony.
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Hmm, looks like Crick was a little late:
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Abstract
The panspermia theory has antecedents which go back to the Old Kingdom in Egypt, and which are also found in early Hinduism, the philosophy of the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagoras, and amongst the Jewish and Christian Gnostics. It is remarkable how explicit some of these early sources are in suggesting that the entire cosmos is full of seeds, and that life on earth originated from them. Here, a survey is undertaken of all these early beliefs, in order to present a pre-history to these conceptions and show that such ideas appear to be as old as civilization itself.
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