If there extraterrestrial life “change the central vision of the world” – La Vanguardia

Guia de Isora (Tenerife) Sep 22 (EFE) .- Richard Dawkins , evolutionary biologist, said in the second edition of Starmus Festival held in Tenerife, that had life Alien “would change the human-centric vision we have the Universe “.

Find possibility of life beyond Earth, made up time has not occurred, would the view of Dawkins, “a dramatic effect” if anything, the conception of the universe, but it’s “I love,” he said.

This expert staunch advocate of the theory of Darwinian evolution, he delivered a lecture An alien tentative taxonomy of life before physics students and the presence of Stephen Hawking, guest star of the Festival on astrononomia.

Hawking, theoretical physicist author of The Brief History of Time morning talk “The Origin of the Universe.”

Richard Dawkins said he understood enough about the facts of life to speak of the probability of other forms in other planets. And it would be “arrogant” to think any suggestion “that we are alone.”

“If we were one of those who believe that we are alone in the universe any speculation about the origin of life on this planet will fail, “he said.

Dawkins did a comparison of how species evolved on Earth and the likelihood that they will do other life forms on other planets. He said that has not known extraterrestrial life does not mean not thus exist, he added, “not know many people who live on the same planet as ours.”

“It is likely also no life meets another, “said Dawkins. The way to find life outside our planet is still uncertain, he said.

“I’m not sure that in fifty years we as finding something on Mars but I would love to think” added the biologist who supports the project Seti searching for extraterrestrial life.

It seems that communication via radio frequency, not in direct contact, could clarify certain questions.

Showing some things on the planet Dawkins insisted that the I Darwinian evolution must be because there is no other proposal has been able to generate a type of statistical probability.

“All species have their ways of survival and all tend to survive,” he said. In this sense, explained that the evolutionary theory of Darwin could be viable for other forms of life in the universe.

Dawkins also wondered if life is based on coal or proteins, the latter a very effective catalyst for the molecule can assume any three-dimensional shape.

“Life on our planet is a partnership between the DNA and protein running life,” says the scientist, who listed twenty basic amino acids.

Also, gravity is another building block for there existence on our planet. “Without gravity the animals were deregulated,” Dawkins said.

The biologist speculated that may have the form of bacterial life “but must cross a threshold of cosmic communication so that we can know.”

Y is that before that time these questions have no answers, evolutionary biologist believes that alien life form “must be sophisticated in order to have a transmitter and communicate with us.”