lindsmuse wrote
There is another school among the scientists which includes Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule. Crick advocated a theory of “directed panspermia” – the possibility that an older civilization sent a mission to start life on our newly evolving planet. A single capsule of several elementary organisms would, he claimed, suffice to bring life to Earth. “This might suggest,” Crick said, “that we have cousins on planets that are not too distant”...
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He also recently claimed that black people were probably genetically less clever than whites. Crick likes to say crazy stuff to get a rise out of people. Evidence - or the lack thereof - doesn't hold his tongue.
Panspermia simply displaces the origin of life elsewhere - where it will have the same difficulties of explanation. Since there's no real evidence for panspermia, it's more reasonable to look for the origins of life here on earth. Especially since there are already some exciting leads as to how it could have happened.
