Why do the majority of scientists reject the idea that life originated elsewhere?
I find it quite short sighted (kind of like flat earth science) that science can't consider this as a realistic possibility. After all, while the universe is vast to us, it is tiny in the grand scheme of things. Kind of like how a fish bowl is the whole world to a goldfish yet it tiny compared to the windowsill it sits on.
Should a gold fish restrict looking for the answers to it's origin to that tiny goldfish bowl? How many hundreds of years should it restrict it's search to that goldfish bowl? How pathetic is that goldfish?
Is it blasphemy to suggest life originated elsewhere? I thought scientists weren't (on the whole) religious.
Meanwhile
Science IS looking outside of Earth for the origin of life, they just don't expect to find advanced or superior life, they still 'FEAR' that possibility.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/on...RecordID=11919
Science has mainly restricted it's search for life to finding water elsewhere, but this is apparrently restrictive as it is now thought life could exist in different forms to that which we know it on Earth......progress!
Considering that life can exist in different forms certainly opens up the possibilities some what.
Energy beings, beings of pure light perhaps?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...sing-link.html