Scientists have recently discovered, as they tend to do every few months, or whenever it’s a slow day in the science world, that perhaps bits of interstellar dust may have harbored water molecules, and primitive life. It could be. But.
1. Occam’s Razor would indicate to me that when you’ve got a planet with ocean’s full of water, plenty of sunshine, and lots of weird gases in the atmosphere, it is more likely to generate life spontaneously than to have it delivered via interstellar winds from some planet kazillions of miles away, or maybe Mars, the ancient civilizations of Mars.
What this place needs is some life!
2. The very best they can prove is that it would have been possible. They can’t prove that it’s what happened. Nobody was there at the beginning of life. And it probably didn’t leave much of a fossil record. I’m pretty amazed that scientists can look at a crater in Mexico and know what happened there 65 million years ago. Or they can examine some bones and say if it was a man or a woman and how old and what they did for a living and what they’d just had for breakfast before they up and died, and whether they liked cats. But they don’t have a time machine.
3. What of it? Of course, there’s the pure science angle, this stuff is interesting to know and it bears on our future as a species and may give us valuable knowledge we will need if we colonize other planets, but that isn’t the way it’s being sold.
Whether the original spark of life happened in a shallow pool in an indentation of a rock by the side of an earthly ocean during an almighty sky splitting, deafening, blinding thunderstorm, or whether we were borne here on the breeze, like Mary Poppins, it doesn’t change our relationship to the Earth, it doesn’t change who we are as a species.
We are the children of the Earth, even if we are the adopted children, and whether we drifted here like interstellar hitchhiking sperm cells or were left on the Earth’s doorstep by the Clathonians, doesn’t matter.
We need to respect the planet.
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