Does panspermia prove the big bang?

[Kennedy_from_Canada]

Hiya, Check out this site panspermia.org, and tell me what you think! Look forward to your replies!

I haven't the time to search the whole website, so would you please explain the connection between the life from outer space stuff and big bang theory?

[Artoo]

This from the panspermia site:

"..it means, we believe, that there can be no origin of life from nonliving matter in the finite past."

That would appear to make it, and the big bang, mutually exclusive. Of course, Fred Hoyle was a believer in Steady State. I don't know whether he eventually changed his mind, but it has few supporters now.

However, that doesn't mean that there aren't bits of organic matter (at whatever state of development) floating about in space.


Artoo.


(Now here's a twist - having argued that some of the discussion in the Sci+Tech forum should be in Religion+Phil, can I now say that this thread might be better in Sci+Tech?)

[moonchaser]

How about a comprimise.. both threads in both sedctions?? We can discuss religious ramifications here and the sci-tech ones there?

[Artoo]

I'm not that bothered. Probably best to keep it in one place unless the two aspects make another thread viable. Irrespective of any religious angle, there's a philosophical question here, and 'physics' used to be called 'natural philosophy'.