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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (415603)	6/17/2003 6:45:05 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

In this talk I would like to speculate* a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular the development of intelligent life.* This is probably a very old article. There is no date. And he admits he is speculating. It was most likely written before his Brief History of Time. And there are a lot of if's in it. We do not know how DNA molecules first appeared. The chances against a DNA molecule arising by random fluctuations are very small. Some people have therefore suggested that life came to Earth from elsewhere and that there are seeds of life floating round in the galaxy. However, it seems unlikely that DNA could survive for long in the radiation in space. And even if it could it would not really help explain the origin of life because the time available since the formation of carbon is only just over double the age of the Earth. He states that it's very unlikely that DNA could have appeared accidentally, randomly. If you read the whole paragraph and not just the poorly worded sentence you get the meaning. He meant it's highly unlikely that DNA could have happened by chance.