Wickramasinghe, Chandra2012-01-172012-01-172011Consciências. Porto. ISSN 1645-6564. 4 (2011) 69-74.1645-6564http://hdl.handle.net/10284/2385Darwin’s allegorical “warm little pond” was most probably located outside the Earth and Darwinian evolution, including genetic transfers occurred over a vast galactic scale. How did life arise? Not just on the Earth, but anywhere in the Universe? Does life emerge readily on every Earth-like planet by spontaneous processes involving well attested laws of physics and chemistry, or did it involve an extraordinary, even miraculous intervention? Science must necessarily exclude a miraculous option of course, but the other questions continue to be asked.engjournal article