The Myth of Extra Terrestrials

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The myth that they're hardly sel om gaave lookt look. Look at the deep field photographs. There is no evidence of any visitation of any sort. And even a fossil record would not be a silly place to start looking. So are they figments of our imagination? I don't know. But if you hear the voice sober from the cockpits i love listening to, o its asi am not quite sure where you're trying to say. It is the main stream of science which says there are extra terrestrials,. and they will come in peace, and all the rest of it. We have every reason to think possess earthlike planets. If indeed they

Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. But as much as people know about evolution, we also find the growth of corresponding myths. Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. He is known as a defender of evolutionary convergence and adaptationism — even when there is a mass extinction, he argues, the resulting shake-up simply accelerates the developments evolution would have made anyway. We talk about this, and also about the possible role of God in an evolutionary worldview.

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Simon Conway Morris received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an emeritus professor of evolutionary paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge. Among his awards are the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.

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