01.30.06
Life As We Do Not Know IT
From the always interesting Panspermia, Ward’s Life As We Do Not Know It
Like almost everyone else, Ward ignores the software aspect of the origin-of-life problem. Nothing new about that. But with all his willingness to consider every imaginable scenario, we wish he were more receptive to stronger versions of panspermia. He admits only the standard two possibilities for the origin-of-life: God or “some chemical pathway” (p xxiv). But to us, the complete lack of direct evidence for any origin-of-life, anywhere, ever, suggests a third possibility: life always existed.