Francis
Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was
most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA
molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson.
Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins
were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine
“for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic
acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
He was clearly a brilliant scientist who
unfortunately, like many other brilliant minds who came up with
theories that challenged the accepted frameworks at the time, wasn’t
given much ‘press.’
In his book published in 1982, Life Itself, he
argues that there is no possible way that the DNA molecule could have
gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have come here from
somewhere else. Within the mainstream scientific community, the
generally accepted theory is that we are the result of a bunch of
molecules accidentally bumping into each other, creating life. However,
according to Francis, we are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published their paper on it in July of 1973.
Their theory explains that, “organisms
were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another
planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in
this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present
time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the
kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” (source)
As far as Crick’s thoughts on the theory
that we are the result of accidentally bumping into each other, he
thinks this was as likely as the assembly of a jumbo jet hit by a
hurricane in a junk yard. In other words, he thought the theory held
little to no credibility.
