You really do take a shotgun approach to this discussion . I would have though that your organisation would have a more nuanced approach to this topic by now.
Crick :
"He proposed that intelligent extraterrestrials may have sent DNA to the earth to help get life started here."
LOL
You realise again that is out of context . Crick did support directed panspermia as a possible, though unlikely , source for DNA.
This was loosely based around the “anomalous abundance of molybdenum” in organisms which made it possible that life arose in an environment rich in molybdenum.
Earth is not rich in moly.
Crick and Orgel proposed their Directed Panspermia theory at a conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, organized by Carl Sagan and held at the Byuraka Observatory in Soviet Armenia in 1971. This theory which they described as an “highly unorthodox proposal” and “bold speculation” was presented as a plausible scientific hypothesis. Two years after the conference they published an article in Icarus on 1973.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-origins-of-directed-panspermia/
Directed panspermia
F.H.C.CrickL.E.Orgel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0019103573901103
Abstract
It now seems unlikely that extraterrestrial living organisms could have reached the earth either as spores driven by the radiation pressure from another star or as living organisms imbedded in a meteorite. As an alternative to these nineteenth-century mechanisms, we have considered Directed Panspermia, the theory that organisms were deliberately transmitted to the 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.
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