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No. You exhibit a severe misunderstanding of evolution. Imagine panspermia is true. Some kind of life exists in space. and some of it fell down to earth. Then
by lolcraft 14y ago
No. You exhibit a severe misunderstanding of evolution.
Imagine panspermia is true. Some kind of life exists in space. and some of it fell down to earth. Then life on earth would evolve down here, adapting to the particular circumstances of our planet, and the species in space would evolve, separately, to adapt to living in space. The result is that both strands would inevitably become very different.
If you brought down life from space, compared it to actual life on earth, and found they turned out to be the same, then necessarily it would mean that both strands, in completely different environments, evolved to become the same. This is not only improbable, but emphatically impossible.
- sesqu 14y agoYou would have a point if they found living specimens in the meteorite. As it stands, they found organisms that have died a long time ago and that greatly resemble organisms that have died a long time ago. Dead things don't evolve, so placing their lives at the same chronological point is not a problem.
- mbrubeck 14y agoBut according to the evolutionary biologist quoted in this article, neither the organisms in the photos nor the known species they look like have been dead a long time. > "1) they are, for the most part, in great shape. There certainly is not any sign of this being fossilized material… There are no extinct taxa found, only ones we would find living today…"
- sesqu 14y agoFair enough. I was basing my comment on the other article, which claimed the opposite.