In a YouTube video, his followers asked Dawkins what he thought of aliens. The professor identified three possibilities in his answer.
According to one scenario, the aliens could be giant spider-like creatures the size of elephants.
According to the professor, aliens would have this body structure if they came from a home planet with a gravitational field much weaker than Earth’s.
The second possibility is if the aliens came from a planet whose gravitational field is much stronger than that of Earth. In this case, they could be creatures roughly the same size as a mouse and with a body shape similar to a rhinoceros. On the other hand (and this is the third possibility) if they came from a planet with a similar gravity to Earth, then according to him, they could have a body structure almost similar to that of humans.
“They might look just like us. Just look at the history of life on our planet, it’s amazing how convergent evolution works and how often the same solutions to the same problems emerge. The wildlife in Australia, for example, is remarkably similar to that in the rest of the world.” He said. “There is a striking similarity between the fauna of Australia and the fauna of the world,” explaining the last three possibilities.
In his answer, Richard Dawkins also made it clear that he is absolutely certain that life exists outside Earth. However, according to him, they can be very far away, so the first contact (if it happens) will be through long-distance contacts, and not by catching up and suddenly landing on the ground, as he wrote. Daily Star.
