What Darwin Didn't Know - Part 9: Directed Panspermia

So far I haven't even scratched the surface of the complexity of the problem of a naturalistic explanation for the origin of life.

Nobel Prize winning biochemist Francis Crick, in his recent book, Life Itself, states: "An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." (page 88)

Another Nobel Prize winner (physiology) , Jacques Monod, stated the following in his work, Chance and Necessity: "Life appeared on earth: what, before the event, were the chances that this would occur? The present structure of the biosphere certainly does not exclude the possibility that...its a priori probability was virtually zero." (page 136)

The probability for life self assembling is a virtual zero. Dr. Crick speculated that, since abiogenesis appears to be impossible, life perhaps could have evolved elsewhere in outer space, and transferred to Earth via space travel. Dr. Crick termed his theory, Directed Panspermia. The extraterrestrials after transporting prebiotics to Earth then "seeded" the Earth with the new life forms, and the process of evolution began.

Now, even without knowing anything at all about directed panspermia, just ask yourself this question: Which requires a greater amount of faith, that God created life multiple times on Earth to prepare the planet for the advent of humanity, or that aliens from outer space created life and seeded the Earth upon visiting it some 3.9 billion years ago? Or how about this question: Which should not be allowed to be discussed at the scientific table of debate: That a Creator introduced new life forms at various stages of Earth's history to compensate for changing conditions, all with the appropriate life forms in the just right abundances in the just right places with the just right biodiversity, all to prepare the planet so that Homo Sapiens Sapiens could one day inhabit the planet; or that space aliens created life elsewhere in the universe, transported it via space travel, planted it on the Earth, and then let it evolve over eons of time until humankind evolved? Which one has less explanatory power and scope than the other? I think you know what I think, so I'll leave it for you to contemplate.

Please don't get me wrong. I don't have any problem with directed panspermia being allowed at the high table of scientific debate - just so long as it can be put to the scientific test. The same should be true for Reasons To Believe's Testable Creation Model. It too should be allowed to the table, provided it too can be put to the test.

Here's the RTB Testable Creation Model summary for your reference.

Interestingly, the world of science is turning to outer space for explanations for the origin of life on Earth. At the very least, it shows the intractable problems with a Darwinian explanation. Here's a quote from Michael Denton's book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, page 271: "Moreover, the seemingly intractable difficulty of explaining how a living system could have gradually arisen as a result of known chemical and physical processes raises the obvious possibility that factors as yet undefined by science may have played some role. Such a concession is, of course, the thin end of a very dangerous wedge for once it is conceded that one evolutionary event has involved novel and unknown processes and has been more than a matter of chance and selection then the whole framework of Darwinian evolution is threatened. An obvious extrapolation is suggested - may not these unidentified processes have been involved in other problematical areas of evolution?"

Here's an excellent article on just why life could not possibly have been transferred to Earth from outer space:

http://www.reasons.org/extra-terrestrials-ufos/space-travel/only-movies-harsh-realities-deep-space-travel

You don't need to look to outer space to find the Creator of life on Earth. He's easy to find. He's the God of the Bible, and here's what He says on the subject from Isaiah 45:

¹¹ "This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?

¹² It is I who made the earth
and created mankind upon it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.

Well, just one more topic to go for this series. Tune in next time as we dispel the myth that man evolved from the apes when we study the hominids.

Cheers

Tom