Category: Physics, Earth & Space
Another Problem with Panspermia
Panspermia, the idea that life on earth may have been accidentally seeded here from somewhere else in the cosmos, is a convenient rescue strategy for materialist explanations of life’s origins.
Check This Out: New Hubble “Extreme Deep Field”
Some 5,500 galaxies in a tiny patch of dark sky — for most of human history, who could have imagined such things?
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Down-to-Earth Astrobiology
For Wallace the conditions required for life (much less the complex diversity of life found on earth) were so many that they make the likelihood of extraterrestrial life highly improbable.
Privileged Planet Update: Jupiter Takes One for the Home Team
Leading physicist George Wetherill argued that we owe our planetary survival to the gas giant.
Why They Sent the Curiosity Rover to Mars
It’s time for a cold appraisal of what the mission to our frigid planetary neighbor is really about.