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Originally Posted by JohnF
As far as "aliens," a number of very famous evolutionists with P.HD's have claimed that Aliens seeded our planet with DNA, as they raised that DNA could not come about by chance. From memory that includes Physicists Richard Dawkins plus Hawkins, etc. I do not subscribe to that Idea.
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Another internet myth, which is very easy to disprove (especially in the case of Richard Dawkins):
Do a search for "dawkins panspermia", and you will find plenty of refutation from the man himself; e.g.
I keep meeting a bizarre myth that I think aliens seeded life here. I don’t & never have. Panspermia was supported by Fred Hoyle, never me.
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/s...787968?lang=en
Apparently I’m accused of advocating panspermia. Confused with Fred Hoyle? How did that start?
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/s...877120?lang=en
Stephen Hawking has indeed publicly entertained the possibility that life on Earth
might have come from space - but that is not the same thing as claiming that it is true - and he is on record as being an atheist and Darwinian evolutionist, I don't believe he ever claimed that DNA could not come about by chance.
(And I suspect that Richard Dawkins would also concede that it is
possible that life on Earth
might have come from space - but he doesn't think it is at all likely, and certainly not for the reasons claimed!)
Please - if we're going to have claims that "so and so has apparently said ...", please take the trouble to check first whether they "apparently" said it, or "absolutely did NOT" say it.