Evolution from Space

With the amount of evidence we now had for an organic composition of interstellar dust we found it exceedingly puzzling to understand the reluctance to accept even this relatively simple fact. Perhaps there was a perception that very much bigger issues were at stake. If the whole of Darwinian evolution was to come under scrutiny there would be a motive to turn away from even the simplest facts that pointed in such a direction. After all the victory of Darwinism over the Judeo–Christian view of creation as exemplified in the Huxley–Wilberforce debate was a hard-won affair and the memory of the blood-letting must still linger in our collective consciousness. It is a victory to be cherished at all cost, and smaller truths may need to be sacrificed in the interests of larger perceived goals…