Re: The Creation of Man
Here is another consideration for directed panspermia. It dawned on me tonight. Traveling in large machines may have more constrains than sending bacteria or viruses through say wormholes. Viruses can be very stable. Then evolutionarily things may have been arranged this way. First, plant here and there some primitive life forms, then 3 billion years later, when conditions favor, bring most to the Cambrian, by means of viruses that insert in and modify genomes, then wait another 500 million years or so till things settle, and introduce more of intelligence modifying chimp?s genome. Viruses can be very genome specific and can rearrange genes, we just do not know enough about the mechanisms yet. I guess, we should find out soon, comparing genomes, what was modified and when, and hopefully how. And also, I hope we should find out soon to what extend species changed using their internal capacity vs. through introduced genetic elements. Another question is why we were made so imperfect that we now need to learn how to deal with genetic and other disorders and even try improving the system at its informational basics. I guess, nothing is perfect anyway, and it may also be our turn to learn and act along this line. I may (tentatively) suggest a couple of recent introductions: HIV virus and Drosophila p-elements - to help us study genetics and give us a lesson in the meantime. Why would they plant life where it would develop later anyway? - In that causality scheme the life would not develop unattended. They see an empty suitable planet in the permissible time-space range and they plant life there so that this trajectory is filled with diverse life and some intelligence, and then continue to take care of it as we do of our flowerbeds and may do the same to other planets in the future. This way the Universe exists sort of in all time-space, and also in different possible perspectives, and life and intelligence is its part that develops by means of its own on time loops, after the world cools down some time after the Big Bang. We do not need the origination factor or organic evolution per se in this hypothesis.