Can Astrobiology Ever Become a Real Science?
In the previous post, we saw that secular astronomers are all wound up about yet another exoplanet and what they think is hope for extraterrestrial life. Up yonder at Deception Pass, the hands at the Darwin Ranch have themselves a highly profitable enterprise that they call astrobiology. Astronomy / Gentile da Fabriano, ca. 1400s As we have already seen, astrobiology is a pseudoscience that is used to promote atoms-to-alien evolution; the faulty reasoning is that if it happened out there , then it must have happened here and humans can dismiss the necessary responses to our Creator. However, there is a tremendous amount of observed data produced while working in astrobiology. If scientists wanted to do something productive, they could drop Darwin on the trial and ride on with their observations. Of course, a name change would be in order. Despite its propensity for wild speculation about life in space, there’s one ...