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What if someday we detect a signal from outer space that turned out to be the Fibonacci sequence? Would that be proof of extraterrestrial intelligence?

Be careful how you answer!

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The Uncommon Descent blog has some pull quotes from an article from the Technology Review/Physics Archiv blog entitled, “The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth” that make that point.

This is the idea that, when earth was struck by space objects in the distant past (e.g., asteroids), material from earth was ejected up into space from the impact, and that material held living organisms. The material was then drawn out into space by various forces. The implication is that if some of that debris made it to various moons or back to earth and was discovered today, it might mistakenly be interpreted as ET life, but it actually originated on earth.

As the Uncommon Descent link notes, astronomer Hugh Ross has been saying this for many years. I recall it from the God, Man, and ET Conference where we were both speakers, as well as some of his radio appearances. But I’d never seen (probably because I never felt compelled enough to look) any journal literature on it. Very interesting.

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From time to time I post on intelligent design (ID) here, as that perspective on origins could be (and has been) offered as a backdrop for any intelligent ET life that might be found out in the universe someday. That is, the Designer would also have designed alien life if it’s real (but that doesn’t comment on the mechanism).

ID often gets criticized for not having an “real” scientists in its support. Here’s a post that lists seven modern Novel Prize winners who didn’t like Darwinism and favored some sort of design argument instead. (Note that one of the commenters adds an eighth). The post is very strong, in that it includes lengthy citations from each one that demonstates their belief in ID.

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A month ago I appeared on Coast to Coast AM. I’ve been on the show many times, and when I’m a guest, I try to set up a hub on my homepage for listeners to get quick access to areas on my websites and blogs that will no doubt come up in the course of the conversation. One of those was an archive I created on this site about “junk DNA.” I ran across a couple more articles today about how this “junk” isn’t junk after all. Anyone familiar with the ancient astronaut religion will know that “junk DNA” has long been one of its “proofs” that humanity was created by aliens via genetic engineering (splicing alien material into a hapless hominid to manufacture homo sapiens). That idea is scientific nonsense. I thought it might be worthwhile calling attention to this page on the blog where I’m collecting these articles.

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I just listened to a short podcast from the Skeptoid blog entitled, “Are We Alone.” It’s a good, succinct survey of the problems and obstacles to being optimistic about other inhabited worlds and intelligent civilizations — in terms of there being such a thing, our ever knowing it, and how our civilization and that one would ever detect each other. If you are a zealot about how there *must* be ET life, this might depress you (but a cold dose of reality is good for you). Nevertheless, the Skeptoid host still feels optimistic, but not because of any actual science. I know what he means. It just seems like there might be other worlds with life, but even so, the odds against there ever being contact are formidable. Have a listen!

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