Life on our planet earth most likely is the result of a panspermic event

[Mr. McD]

Life is ubiquitous throughout the universe. Life on our planet earth most likely is the result of a panspermic event.... Panspermia is how life is spread throughout the universe. These words come from J. Craig Venter's answer to the question, "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" Venter was the president of Celera Genomics, who sequenced the human genome using the whole genome shotgun technique. The completed sequence of the human genome was first published simultaneously by his team and an international consortium in February 2001. In 2003, Venter launched a global expedition to obtain and study microbes from environments ranging from the world’s oceans to urban centers.

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