Richard Dawkins is a wonderful writer articulate clear thinking but no man is infallible. Given the entrenched traditional views of creationism in the US I feel he is fighting yesterday's battle.
However far we push our understanding of the planet of the universe there will always be questions that remain unasked and unanswered. Let's assume for one second there is no creator but other intelligent life forms in the universe have existed. If we found another planet that could support life millions of years away, if we were aware it was in its early stages would we not be tempted to send perhaps bacteria to assist the process?
Given the craters so evident on the moon indicating the many collisions objects suffer is it not probable that some alien bacteria may have found its way onto planet earth, how would we know and detect it?
Richard Dawkins in his own book says that in the future how would an alien life know what was natural and influenced by our own intelligent design through GE foods and other tinkering of the biological code. How do we know that some other intelligent life forms have not tinkered with our code not influenced the development of life on this planet?
The universe is very lonely would we not be tempted to assist its development on another planet?
So my question to the scientists is can bacteria survive on an asteriod? How could we tell if something had come from another planet? If we found another planet in the universe able to support life how would we assist in its development? Perhaps Crick who looked at this was wrong in one aspect life did not come from other planets but has it influenced us? Do we have some alien genes?
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