Did life arrive from outer space? Proponents of Panspermia think
so. Source: Microsoft Images. Editorial Comment: This article
summarizes Evolution of Life: A Cosmic Perspective, an original
paper by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred Hoyle posted on
this site (click on above title to read their paper). There,
readers will also find a link to the commentary by the peer
reviewer of that paper, which provides counterpoint views to the
authors’ controversial ideas. The hypothesis, called cosmic
ancestry/panspermia, posited by the authors is not widely
accepted by the mainstream scientific community. It is published
on this site in consideration of the authors’ distinguished
contributions to science to date and to provide an opportunity
for both scientists and the public to evaluate ideas presented
in their paper. Recently, scientists at University of
California, Berkeley, have shown that organic molecules
travelling through space on comets could have survived their
impact with Earth and could have seeded life o