[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

[ravi]

On 1 Nov, 2007, at 17:48 PM, knowknot at mindspring.com wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> tried to recall:
>
>> Was it Watson or Crick who thinks life on Earth
>> was created by extraterrestrials?
>
> Crick (not Watson) speculated that, conjecturally, it was  
> "possible" that
> the chemical components for life on Earth could have originated with
> intelligent beings elsewhere, but he did not claim that he had  
> scientific
> evidence for any such contention.  The gist of Crick's speculations  
> in this
> respect indeed was effectively to say (as he acknowledged  
> explicitly to
> those with whom he discussed this sort of Stuff) is exactly that -  
> that it
> was speculation, not doing science in any meaningful (scientific)  
> manner.
>

This latter version (life originated elsewhere) is more reasonable  
and I believe considered quite possible by the experts, than the more  
exotic idea that ETs planted life here!

	--ravi