The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life Davies PaulPaperback
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life Davies PaulPaperback Are We Alone in the Universe?In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and…
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The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life Davies PaulPaperback
Are We Alone in the Universe?In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life.Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled earth. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated there and traveled to earth inside meteorites blasted into space by cosmic impacts?Davies builds on recent scientific discoveries and theories to address larger questions of existence: What, exactly, is life? It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms.
Are we alone in the universe, or will life emerge on all earthlike planets? Is it the inevitable by-product of physical laws, as many scientists maintain, or an almost miraculous accident? And if there is life elsewhere in the universe, is it preordained to evolve toward greater