Most scientists claim to be "skeptics", which is as it should be. Are a large number of them, without recognizing it -- "true believers"? Might there exist a blind-spot, in science's usually skeptical methodologies, which has been imposed by archaic authority and a paradigm reduced to wishful thinking? Might one of the fundamental assumptions of orthodox biological theory, a vestigial belief from the dark ages, now be untenable? Can the results of several decades of experiments which examine this assumption be widely overlooked because they provide an outcome which is not wanted? In light of advances in biochemistry and information theory, has the idea of a living organism appearing spontaneously from an inert substrate been mathematically falsified?

The SETI program is built almost entirely on the assumption that spontaneous generation is not only real but is commonplace and has resulted in innumerable ETIs (extra terrestrial intelligent beings). Spontaneous generation, also called abiogenesis and/or autogenesis, is an unquestioned assumption of the curious "Drake equation", which predicts that ETIs are (and have been) relatively numerous throughout the universe. Are they 'out there'? If Drake is anywhere near the truth, if the ETIs are out there, then evidence of their existence would be streaming toward us at light-speed from all sectors of the universe. It seems that ETIs would unavoidably be aware of radio physics, throughout the universe there is but one radio spectrum and it is the best and most obvious means of conveying rich information at the speed of light. In the radio spectrum, planet Earth glows like a virtual supernova. This would hold true of the ETIs home planets and space craft. We can, in principle, monitor all frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly those most useful for communications (in fact we've been doing this for several decades), and scrutinize the electromagnetic 'goings on' of epochs dating to the origin of space, time, and matter in the cosmic creation event, commonly called the big bang. If, "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away", starships were communicating with their fellow ETIs (at Starfleet Command, for example), we could eves-drop on those messages today. They would be very recognizable even if we couldn't understand a single 'word' we heard. So how has the search for our 'cosmic cousins' been going? Where are those illusive ETs? ... check back later -- pulsars, exoplanets, Martian rocks, Stanley Miller's famous primordial soup -- it gets even more interesting; something we have long been told is "science" is strangely cartoon-like, less evidenced and far less reasonable than so-called "spontaneous human combustion" or the validity of the Dark Ages practice of blood-letting to remove evil spirits from the body...