JOHN ALFERD VALENTINE BUTLER........
JOHN ALFERD VALENTINE BUTLER .F.R.S .D SE WAS BORN IN 1899. HE STUDIED AT BIRINGHAM UNIVERSITY AND LATER HELD A ROCKEFELLER FELLOW SHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESARCH.HIS PUBLICATION INCLUDE SCIENCE AND HUMAN LIFE MAN IS A MICROCOSM AND INSIDE THE LIVING CELL.THE ESSAY SHOWS A SHIFT IN SCIENTIFIC BELIF SINCE JEANS WROTE THE MYSTENOUS UNIVERSE IN 1930.BUTLER REFERS TO JEANS AND POINTS OUT THAT TO THE MODERN SCIENTIST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE APPER LESS ACCIDENTAL AND POSSIBLY FAR MORE WIDESPREAD THAN IT DID TO JEANS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
WHAT IS LIFE? A LITTLE SCUM OF NO IMPORTANCE ON THE SURFACE OF AN UNIMPORTANT GLOBLE CIRCLING ROUND A SECOND RATE STAR? AN ACCIDENTAL CONGLOM ERATION OF ATOMS WHICH HAVE COME TOGETHER BY AN ODD CHANCE THE RESULT OF AN EXCEEDINGLY IMPORABLE HAPPENING ? THAT IS WHAT SOME ASTRONOMER WOULD HAVE US THINK .LOOKING OUT INTO TJE DEPTH OF SPACE THEY HAVE DISCOVERED A UNIVERSE OF UNTHINKABLE DIMENSIONS.A BILLION SUNS IN OUR OWN GALAXY. BEYOND IT PERHAPS A BILLION GALAXIES, ONLY REVEALED TO US AS TINY SUMDGES ON A PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE.NO WONDER THEY ARE IMPRESSED BY THE ENORMOUS DISPARITY BETWEEN THE SCAFFOLDING AND THE RESULT .LIFE SEEMED TO BE AS JEANS SAID AN UTTERLY UNIMPORTANT BY PRODUCT IN A UNIVERSE WHICH WAS CLEARLY NOT DESIGNED FOR LIFE AND WHICH TO ALL APPERANCE IS EITHER TOTALLY INDIFFERENT OR DEFINITELY HOSTIL TO IT.ITS SEEMED IN CREDIBLE THAT TH UNIVERSE CAN HAVE BEEN DESIGNED PRIMARILY TO PRODUCE LIKE OUR OWN HAD IT BEEN SO SURELY WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED TO FIND A BETTER PROPORTION BETWEEN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE MECHANISM AND THE AMOUNT OF THE PRODUCT.
IT IS ALSO USED TO BE THOUGHT THAT THE CONDITION UNDER WHICH LIFE COULD POSSIBLY ARISE IN UNIVERSE WERE NOT LIKELY TO OCCUR FREQUENTLY AMONG THE STARS.LIFE AS WE KNOW IT REQUIRES WATER LIGHT A MODERATE TEMPERATURE NEITHER TOO HOT NOR TO COLD AND A VARIETY OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS . IT IS NOT AT ALL CERTAIN THAT THESE FOUND IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. EXPECT ON THE EARTH.!!!!!!!!