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  • You can check out this link if you haven't read up on Panspermia and Exogensis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
  • Hey , I just read that whole page, and I think it is just as logical , if not more so, than some of the common beliefs held close by many today! I shall continue to look for answers to these kinds of questions, and I am glad we met!
  • Panspermia is not incompatible with Evolution. Evolutionary theories do *not* say how life started, only what happened after it started. Equally, Panspermia does not say that all species appeared from cosmic sources in the form they are now; it does not sat that that elephants, wombats, squid and mosses came to earth in the form the are now. Evolution says life started - somehow - and then this amazing evolution thing happened. Panspermia says maybe that "somehow" didn't happen here but a long way away and a long time ago, and got swept here. In my personal opinion, Ok, maybe. But I regard local origin as more likely than remote. But that is my opinion, and nobody has any facts one way or the other.
  • I think, in the context of creationism vs Evolution, it (or you) misses the point. Panspermia suggests a beginning of life on Earth but that seed would still need to evolve into all the life forms seen today and in the fossil record. And it just pushed the question of how it all began (via natural process or supernatural intervention) back to some time earlier. In the context you suggest it's not thinking outside the box, it's misunderstanding.

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