Al-Mufti, S.

Augustyn, K.A.

Chandrajith, R.

Coghlan, J.P.

Coulson, S.G.

Ghosh, S.

Gillman, M.

Gorczynski, R.M.

Klyce, B.

Liu, Y.

Louis, G.

Mahanama, K.

Oliver, K.R.

Padron, J.

Qu, J.

Schuster, J.A.

Smith, W.E.

Snyder, D.P.

Steele, E.J.

Steele, J.A.

Stewart, B.J.

Temple, R.

Tokoro, G.

Tout, C.A.

Unzicker, A.

Wainwright, M.

Wallis, D.H.

Wallis, J.

Wallis, M.K.

Wetherall, J.

Wickramasinghe, D.T.

Wickramasinghe, J.T.

Wickramasinghe, N.C.

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Reply to editorial and commentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith, Coghlan, Coulson et al. (2018) "Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?"

  RESEARCH REPOSITORY  This is the author’s final version of the work, as accepted for publication  following peer review but without the publisher’s layout or pagination.  The definitive version is available at:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300828   Steele, E.J., Al-Mufti, S., Augustyn, K.A., Chandrajith, R., Coghlan, J.P., Coulson, S.G., Ghosh, S., Gillman, M., Gorczynski, R.M., Klyce, B., Louis, G., Mahanama, K., Oliver, K.R., Padron, J., Qu, J., Schuster, J.A., Smith, W.E., Snyder, D.P., Steele, J.A., Stewart, B.J., Temple, R., Tokoro, G., Tout, C.A., Unzicker, A., Wainwright, M., Wallis, J., Wallis, D.H., Wallis, M.K., Wetherall, J., Wickramasinghe, D.T., Wickramasinghe, J.T., Wickramasinghe, N.C. and Liu, Y. (2018) Reply to editorial and commentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith, Coghlan, Coulson et al. (2018) "Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial or cosmic?". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology  http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/40448/     Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd It is posted here for your personal use. No further distribution is permitted.   Accepted ManuscriptReply to editorial and commentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith,Coghlan, Coulson et al. (2018) "Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial orcosmic?"Edward J. Steele, Shirwan Al-Mufti, Kenneth A. Augustyn, Rohana Chandrajith, JohnP. Coghlan, S.G. Coulson, Sudipto Ghosh, Mark Gillman, Reginald M. Gorczynski,Brig Klyce, Godfrey Louis, Kithsiri Mahanama, Keith R. Oliver, Julio Padron, JiangwenQu, John A. Schuster, W.E. Smith, Duane P. Snyder, Julian A. Steele, Brent J.Stewart, Robert Temple, Gensuke Tokoro, Christopher A. Tout, Alexander Unzicker,Milton Wainwright, Jamie Wallis, Daryl H. Wallis, Max K. Wallis, John Wetherall, D.T.Wickramasinghe, J.T. Wickramasinghe, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Yongsheng LiuPII: S0079-6107(18)30082-8DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.007Reference: JPBM 1327To appear in: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyPlease cite this article as: Steele, E.J., Al-Mufti, S., Augustyn, K.A., Chandrajith, R., Coghlan, J.P.,Coulson, S.G., Ghosh, S., Gillman, M., Gorczynski, R.M., Klyce, B., Louis, G., Mahanama, K., Oliver,K.R., Padron, J., Qu, J., Schuster, J.A., Smith, W.E., Snyder, D.P., Steele, J.A., Stewart, B.J., Temple,R., Tokoro, G., Tout, C.A., Unzicker, A., Wainwright, M., Wallis, J., Wallis, D.H., Wallis, M.K., Wetherall,J., Wickramasinghe, D.T., Wickramasinghe, J.T., Wickramasinghe, N.C., Liu, Y., Reply to editorial andcommentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith, Coghlan, Coulson et al. (2018) "Cause ofCambrian explosion - Terrestrial or cosmic?", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (2018), doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.007.This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service toour customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergocopyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Pleasenote that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and alllegal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTEDACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTReply to Editorial and Commentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith, Coghlan, Coulson et al (2018) "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?" PBMB2017-45  Within an individual scientist a paradigm shift occurs in two stages:  1). An instant personal decision to embrace the new global way of understanding reality. This happens within a blink of an eye, as in a Gestalt shift made famous by Thomas Kuhn. The individual confronting the data compares the available evidence for and against - a piece of evidence clicks into place which only makes sense under the new alternative paradigm, and is quite nonsensical under the old way of understanding the world.   2). This personal decision can then move into the public domain but there are many inhibitory processes as the scholar and scientist has to weigh up the socio-political costs, such as: How will this affect my relationships with colleagues? How will this affect my prospects for promotion? How will this affect my future prospects for research funding? etc.  The more fundamental the shift the deeper is the problem for successfully moving to stage 2. However these shifts do happen regularly in Science and are largely accrued community decisions over time.  (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift. ) It is an intellectual battle as described in that Wiki article:  When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is  thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously  discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers, and an  intellectual "battle" takes place  between the followers of the new paradigm and the hold-outs of the  old paradigm.   The battle between rival paradigms on the origin and further evolution of life on Earth is underway and we look forward to more scientists engaging in it. The battle should enrich and spur on each paradigm. However we agree that the thesis that life is a cosmic phenomenon is generally considered inadmissible by the body politic of scientists today. The intellectual shift in the population of scientists to the cosmic perspective will, of course, be protracted particularly in the messy final stages - for example as occurred in the first Copernican revolution - which are likely to continue for some time.  Thus to directly quote Kuhn:   ......The state of Ptolemaic (Earth-centred) astronomy was a scandal before Copernicus’  announcement.  Given a particular discrepancy, astronomers were invariably able to eliminate it by  making some particular adjustment in Ptolemy’s system of compounded  circles. But as time went on, a  man looking at the net result of the normal research effort of many astronomers could observe that  astronomy’s complexity was increasing far more rapidly than its accuracy and that a discrepancy  corrected in one place was likely to show up in another (Kuhn 1969).   We have therefore resisted the temptation to respond in detail to the interesting Commentaries by Keith Baverstock (2018) and Karin Moelling (2018). We agree with the Editor Denis Noble (2018) that the whole issue is on the verge of being decided by decisive evidence of extra-terrestrial life being found elsewhere in our solar system, particularly in the water rich warmed interiors of comets and moons (and their snap frozen ejecta). We have laid out all the key data, analyses and critical arguments why we believe there is already wide ranging supportive evidence collected over the past 50 years by Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe and their associates, many of whom are co-authors of this review. We urge those interested to read our article, then read the key books and papers cited in the primary literature. On this we rest our case but we are of course open to further email discussions. As the Editor has done we also thank the authors of the Commentaries for sharing their arguments in print, and the four anonymous referees for their careful work.   References cited:  Keith Baverstock (2018) Commentary to:  "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? Steele, E.J. et al"  to accompany the article by Steele et al in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology  MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTEDACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTThomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1969) p.68 Second Enlarged Edition , University of Chicago Press, Chicago  Karin Moelling (2018) Commentary to: " Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?  Steele, E.J. et al " to accompany the article by Steele et al in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology  Denis Noble (2018) Editorial to: " Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?  Steele, E.J. et al " to accompany the article by Steele et al in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology  ------------- Edward J. Steele1,10, Shirwan Al-Mufti2, Kenneth A. Augustyn3, Rohana Chandrajith4, John P Coghlan5, S.G. Coulson2, Sudipto Ghosh6, Mark Gillman7, Reginald M. Gorczynski8, Brig Klyce2, Godfrey Louis9, Kithsiri Mahanama10, Keith R. Oliver11, Julio Padron12, Jiangwen Qu13, John A. Schuster14, W.E. Smith15, Duane P Snyder2, Julian A. Steele16, Brent J. Stewart1, Robert Temple17 , Gensuke Tokoro15, Christopher A. Tout18 , Alexander Unzicker19, Milton Wainwright2,10, Jamie Wallis2, Daryl. H. Wallis2, Max K. Wallis2, John Wetherall20, D.T. Wickramasinghe21, J.T. Wickramasinghe2, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe2,10,15, Yongsheng Liu22    1 CY O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation, Piara Waters,WA, Australia, 2 Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, UK, 3  Center for the Physics of Living Organisms, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Michigan, 4  Department of Geology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 5 University of Melbourne, Office of the Dean, Faculty Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences,3rd Level, Alan Gilbert Building, 6.  Metallurgical & Materials Engineering IIT, Kanpur, India, 7  South African Brain Research Institute , 6 Campbell Street, Waverly , Johannesburg, South Africa, 8  University Toronto Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada,  9  Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin, India, 10  Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, 11  School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia,  12  Studio Eutropi, Clinical Pathology and Nutrition Via Pompei 46, Ardea 00040, Rome, Italy, 13 Department of Infectious Disease Control, Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China, 14  Unit for History & Philosophy of Science and Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 15  Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astrobiology, Gifu, Japan, 16 Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium, 17 The History of Chinese Culture Foundation, Conway Hall, London, UK, 18  Institute of Astronomy, The Observatories, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, 19 Pestalozzi- Gymnasium, 11, D-81247  München, Germany, 20 School of Biomedical Sciences, Perth, Curtin University, WA, Australia, 21  College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,  22 Henan Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Biological Breeding, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, 453003, China, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H7, Canada      

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