Short answer: No. But to read the click-bait headlines circulating on the internet in the last couple of days, you’d think so. All you need to do is read NASA’s own announcement — just the first paragraph: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new...
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Will the Confirmation of Water on Europa Lead to Panspermia Non-Sequiturs?
You bet it will. People will erroneously conclude that water on Europa means there was or is life on Europa. Maybe … maybe not. They’ll say it invalidates a biblical creator (uh … why?) and all sorts of other points of theology. It wouldn’t....
Three New Items by Mike for Amazon Kindle
I’ve begun to move some of my academic papers to Kindle format. To this point, I’ve been selling them as PDF files. I’m going to phase those out and move what I can (by publishing permission) to Kindle. If you go to this link on the Kindle store,...
Directed Panspermia in the News
A commenter on my site informed me of this recent news item of interest for UFO Religions: UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth The article is a serious one and not a parody. Here are the first two paragraphs along with the...
Is Speculation Science?
It is when it’s about the search for extraterrestrial life and panspermia. In yet another example of just this, I’d invite you all to read “Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy.” Have any of these planets actually been identified?...
Red Rain of Kerala, India and Panspermia
Is the red rain phenomena of Kerala, India, proof of extraterrestrial life? Does it contain ET DNA? Does it demonstrate a panspermia mechanism? The answers, in order, are: no, no, and no. The red rain issue seems to come up a lot. I want to use it as an example of how...
Are We All Martians?
This notion has been around for a long time. I remember hearing Richard Hoagland say it many times on Coast to Coast AM. But now we have “science” (goofy face here) intervening. Â It was also a sub-plotline in The Facade . The Mysterious Universe blog...
Panspermia Junk Science
If intelligent design is junk science (as it is so often accused of being), then this absolutely qualifies as junk science: “ET Genetic Code May Be Found In Human DNA, According To Kazakhstan Scientists’ Biological SETI Theory.” But Mike, it’s...
DNA as Indicative of Intelligent Design: New Peer-Reviewed Journal Article with a SETI Twist
The Uncommon Descent blog reports that “in the planetary science journal, Icarus, two scientists argue that the genetic code bears the hallmarks of an intelligent cause.” The blog quotes the abstract which reads in part: It has been repeatedly proposed to...
Are We Martians? New Tool for Investigating that Idea Noticeably Hedges its Panspermia Bet
I just read this piece from the space.com website: “ Are Earthlings from Mars ?” The post begins this way: It’s possible that the family tree of all life on Earth has its roots on Mars — and a new device could put that theory to the test in a few...
Not Quite Panspermia
Readers who follow the panspermia discussion in science outlets aimed at the non-specialist may find the recent news release / article from Science Daily of interest: “Organic Carbon from Mars, but not Biological.” Close, but no cigar. A biological outcome...
News Flash: Junk DNA Isn’t Junk — And It’s Human
A month ago I appeared on Coast to Coast AM. I’ve been on the show many times, and when I’m a guest, I try to set up a hub on my homepage for listeners to get quick access to areas on my websites and blogs that will no doubt come up in the course of the...
Panspermia and Religion, Part 1
I’ve mentioned the Journal of Cosmology on this blog before. This online academic journal is known for producing some high-level articles, but has been criticized as well for stirring controversy (most notably the recent claims of “alien bacteria”...
ET Life and Recent God Talk
[Update / Addendum 10/11/2011 – see the third paragraph.] I’m betting those of you who lurk on this blog have seen the recent spate (or is it semi-mindless repetition) of news stories about the impact an intelligent extraterrestrial reality would have on...
On Intelligent Design's Ability to Embrace Evolution and Adapt to Various "Designers"
This post critiquing a well-known Christian Darwinist’s mis-articulation of intelligent design is absolutely worth reading. I post it here in light of several ideas I have noted several times on this blog: 1. Evolutionary theory and intelligent design are not...