Richard Dawkins “If there extraterrestrial life would change the vision … – Informa Valencia

One of the foremost authorities in the world of physics and the cosmos, the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, in the second edition of Starmus Festival held in Tenerife, if had extraterrestrial life “would change the human-centric vision we have of the universe.”

Finding possibility of life beyond Earth, a fact that so far no occurred, would in the opinion of Dawkins, “a dramatic effect” if anything, the conception of the universe, but it is something “I’d love to,” he said.

This expert, defender of the theory of Darwinian evolution, gave a lecture A tentative taxonomy of extraterrestrial life to physics students. He attended Stephen Hawking, guest star of this festival on astronomy. Theoretical physicist author of A Brief History of Time speaks Tuesday about the origin of the universe.

We are not alone in the Universe

Richard Dawkins said that know enough about the facts of life to speak of the probability of other forms on other planets. Also it would be “arrogant” to think of 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 and made a comparison of how it evolved species on Earth and the likelihood that they will do other life forms on other planets.

also said that not has 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 also likely that any form of life meets another, “said Dawkins, who emphasized that the way to find life outside our planet is still uncertain.

” I’m not sure that in 50 years we as finding something on Mars, but I would love to think “added the biologist. It also supports the Seti project searching for extraterrestrial life through communication via radio frequency.

The origin of life remains a mystery

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

“All species have their all forms of survival and 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 catalyst very effective, because the molecule can assume any three-dimensional shape.

“Life on our planet is an association between 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 to these questions that have no answers for now, Richard Dawkins believes that alien life form “must be sophisticated in order to have a transmitter and communicate with us.”