Lifelong Christian had to face the facts

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I will qualify what I mean by "aliens" to avoid any confusion. Alien is any form of non-earth based life, this includes bacteria and the like. But no, I don't have "faith", I just consider that in a universe the size of ours the statistical chances are high. But for the moment unproven. Faith doesn't come into it.

Nope. You still have a slice of faith. Based on statistical chances, it would be more probable that a God did bring the universe into existence.

Chaos theory shoots that idea right in the foot.

Statistical chances? What chances are you looking at? Last time I checked god was just a possibility (sort of like the tooth fairy), but there's no evidence (hence the faith bit). The same with aliens, except for the part that it is actually a much more rational stance. Considering we could technically, at some point, have the ability to observe other life forms. God isn't even explained, but we have very comprehensive explanations for life on other planets. After all we are a product of biological processes; a little biology and astronomy can explain a good bit of that for you. Can you explain god and his statistical chances?

And Zen Badger already addressed your chaos theory comment.....