I have no idea who this guy is but I happened across an article about this "Dr. Rhawn Joseph"
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/07/21/life.earth.came.other.planets
This guy dis-believes abiogenesis and claims that life must have come from another planet in the form of microbes. A quote from the article:
"Dr. Rhawn Joseph, the author of this landmark paper, puts it bluntly: "Given the incredible complexity of a single-celled organism and its DNA, the likelihood that life on Earth was randomly created in an organic soup is the equivalent of discovering a computer on Mars and proclaiming it was randomly assembled in the methane sea."
Therefore, as only life can produce life, life on earth must have originated on other planets. But then, how did it get here?"
Can I ask him a question?
Where did the microbes come from and how did it evolve on other planets if it cannot on this one? Some "unknown" piece of stuff?
So many theories, so many beliefs, so many dis-beliefs... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
I believe in the Maker.
DP
"Where did the microbes come from and how did it evolve on other planets if it cannot on this one? Some "unknown" piece of stuff?"
ReplyDeleteHey, guess what, that was essentially Dawkins' entire point.
You can tell a lot about a persons integrity by how they try to misrepresent Dawkins' clip on expelled.
I have no idea who Rhawn Joseph is but when I google the name I just human sexuality and erotic links.
Hey, guess what, that was essentially Dawkins' entire point.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell a lot about a persons integrity by how they try to misrepresent Dawkins' clip on expelled.
How was I misrepresenting Dawkins?
I know he doesn't believe in aliens planting life on earth. He only said that he would rather that view to God as creator.
I have no idea who Rhawn Joseph is but when I google the name I just human sexuality and erotic links.
ReplyDeleteI looked for him on wiki but I got nothing. The article links to his site or similar...I think.
"I know he doesn't believe in aliens planting life on earth."
ReplyDeleteWell alright then, as I inferred it's one of those issues the less scrupulous like to misrepresent.
"He only said that he would rather that view to God as creator"
Do you have a quote for that? Because the point of the clip was that moving the origin off earth doesn't explain anything at all.
Which as I pointed out agrees with your questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZtEjtlirc&feature=related
ReplyDeleteHere is where he said he would consider aliens as a possibility over God as designer.
Unless I misunderstood him that is what I heard him say.
Yes I am very familiar with the clip.
ReplyDelete"and that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe. But that higher intelligence would itself would have to come about by some explicable or ultimately explicable process. It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That's the point."
As I have pointed out repeatedly said your points agree with what he's saying.
Note Ben Steins comment is a voice over not something he said directly to Dawkins.
"[voice over] So professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain types of designers. Such as God."
It would be much more accurate for him to say "Such as unexplainable Magic."
Nowhere does Dawkins say that he thinks Intelligent Design is true, or that he thinks Aliens are the Designers.
We probably came from RNA strands that used the soil as a replication catalyst, and that started the evolution process. But given the vast amounts of time it would take for this to happen, and given that there's no fossil evidence of this, it''s still an unproven, but likely, hypothesis.
ReplyDeleteLife is probably on millions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy alone, but that begs the question: why can't we find evidence of them? Surely some of them developed higher intelligence. Where are their radio signals? How do you detect a civilization a million+ years more advanced than you are?
I imagine all this will be answered in time.
As for people who think an alien race planted life of earth, they're a little nutty. It doesn't make sense to deposit a bunch of bacteria on a newly formed planet and wait several billion years to see what happened.
If you think the article is bad, check out the source: http://brainmind.com/ . It looks like it's a new-age site made by a bunch of hippies. This guy is seriously crazy.
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