AProudLefty (02-28-2021), Cypress (02-28-2021)
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AProudLefty (02-28-2021), Cypress (02-28-2021)
"Scientists have called for a "mission to Earth" to hunt for evidence of a second genesis that gave rise to life, but not as we know it."...."must be open to the possibility that there's more than one tree of life," Davies said.
It is still just an educated guess, but this kind of creative thinking and open mindedness is the trademark of good science.
At this time, available evidence indicates that life, curiously, evolved only once on earth. But a search for evidence of multiple evolutionary events is something we should do. Because I am not the only one who thinks it is a little weird that life only evolved once on earth in four billion years, especially if our expectation is that life is common, resilent, and ubiquitous in the universe.
AProudLefty (02-28-2021), christiefan915 (02-28-2021)
Another interesting theory is the Infinite Monkey Theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
That would also apply to today's politics.
Cypress (02-28-2021)
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AProudLefty (02-28-2021)
AProudLefty (02-28-2021), Cypress (02-28-2021)
Cypress (02-28-2021)
AProudLefty (02-28-2021)
Cypress (02-28-2021)
Indeed. Two of my favorite intellectual achievements of ancient Greece: Anaximander articulated a theory of evolution, and Democritus came up with atomic theory.
It is remarkable it took two thousand years for European science to circle back and reacquire a theory of evolution and an atomic theory.
AProudLefty (02-28-2021)
Cypress (02-28-2021)
Part of it is that Greek thought was lost to western Europe for almost a thousand years.
But part of it is probably that even in the Greek world, the atomic theory of Democritus did not recieve widespread acceptance. Aristotle throught the theory of atomism was preposterous, and to the minds of medieval western Europeans and the Islamic scholars of Andalusia, Aristotle's authority was unimpeachable.
AProudLefty (02-28-2021)
Everyone keeps talking about THE universe.
What if there is more than one?
What there are an infinite number if them?
C'MON MAN!!!!
The problem I have with it is there have always been mavericks. Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci being two perfect examples.
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