Re: The Ark of the Biology

On 01/07/2025 02:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 6/30/2025 11:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
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 Dafuq?

It looks like a bible-style description of
applied panspermia, or else terraforming.
It seems to involve "God", who could be the
spaceship's AI, and some pre-programming
of genes in the first appearance of life whose
function is relevant later on, which I think is
an idea in Christian "Creationism" or "intelligent
design" - that instead of genes coming into
existence by evolution, they all existed in the
original created entities but were suppressed.
I think it's describing the development of life
on Earth, but perhaps being partly fictional.
And not just because "God" is involved.
Successive forms of life themselves don't emerge
from the "Ark"; they don't appear until their
due time - according to actual prehistory if or when
this account really is following that.
I don't recognise "a matrix of amorphous silicate
and hydrogenated carbon".  Could it be a description
of eggshell?
This might be an excerpt from or a response to
_Science Fiction By Scientists_, but nothing fits in
a skim read of the detailed review "reprinted" here
<https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/science-fiction-by-scientists-edited-by-michael-brotherton/>
including the "obvious" "Spreading the Seed".
And it doesn't seem to be known by Google.
However, the appearance of very technical scientific
terms, or what looks like such, suggests that it's
from a scientist's hand.