Boldly bridging the gap between faith and science, a Russian Orthodox Church spokesman has voiced backing for the panspermia theory of life origin, which holds that life was transported here from elsewhere in the universe.
"God could have created the world through various means," Moscow Patriarchate representative Vsevolod Chaplin was cited as saying Thursday by the TASS news agency.
"This includes the primary material contained in the bowels of a comet," Vsevolod Chaplin added.
He was commenting on the findings of the first comet landing in history, pulled off last week by the European Space Agency (ESA), which landed the Philae spacecraft on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet.Philae has found organic molecules — the basic building bricks of life — on the comet, the German Aerospace Agency was cited as saying by the Wall Street Journal.This has given a new boost to the "panspermic" theory of life origins, which posits that life is distributed from world to world by comets and meteorites carrying dormant microorganisms that awaken when landing on planets with favorable conditions — such as Earth.
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INC News, 21/11/2014
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