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The origins of the universe and life itself are a mystery that humans are constantly contemplating and debating. Many explanations, including creationism and mere coincidence, have been offered to explain how or why the universe and life were created, but the idea that Earth was seeded from space seems a more probable mix of many probable theories. Panspermia, first mentioned in 5th century BCE by Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, and meaning “seeds everywhere” (Crick, 1982), is a theory that integrates the theories of the Big Bang, chemical evolution, and terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial evolution. Directed panspermia, is a theory by Francis Crick, stating that life was seeded here not accidentally, but purposefully by another race. The theories of panspermia are becoming even more probable with increasing scientific evidence of life having the possibility of originating in space.
In order to understand how life could have originated at all, one must first look at how the......

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