Comment Re:The actual article (Score 1) 332
The quote you posted is quite convoluted and I agree that the author might not have been as clear as he could have been. Here's my interpretation of what the author wrote:
"The well known problem in explaining the origin of life is that the complexity of living creatures is so high that the time necessary to form the simplest organic living structure is too large compared to the age of the Earth."
This sentence is pretty clear...
"Similarly, the age of the Universe is also not sufficient for organic life to be created in a distant environment (similar to that on the Earth) and then transferred to the Earth."
(Emphasis mine)
The author thinks that life could not have evolved on another planet and then traveled via meteorite from that planet to the earth. What he left unwritten, and what most posters in this thread seem to miss, is that he wants to say that life originated directly in the interstellar medium! Therefore I wouldn't go as far as to say that the author is a believer in ID, he just has his own brand of panspermia/exogenesis.
"The well known problem in explaining the origin of life is that the complexity of living creatures is so high that the time necessary to form the simplest organic living structure is too large compared to the age of the Earth."
This sentence is pretty clear...
"Similarly, the age of the Universe is also not sufficient for organic life to be created in a distant environment (similar to that on the Earth) and then transferred to the Earth."
(Emphasis mine)
The author thinks that life could not have evolved on another planet and then traveled via meteorite from that planet to the earth. What he left unwritten, and what most posters in this thread seem to miss, is that he wants to say that life originated directly in the interstellar medium! Therefore I wouldn't go as far as to say that the author is a believer in ID, he just has his own brand of panspermia/exogenesis.
