(December 5, 2015 at 3:57 pm)AAA Wrote: It was covered a little bit. Just a thought, but maybe the majority of the universe is inhospitable to life to show us how rare and privileged our planet is. As for earth, it is extremely well suited for life. It has the appropriate magnetic field, the well sized and positioned moon, it has the proper atmospheric conditions, it is in the habitable zone, it is the right size, and we have the proper sun to support life, we have the gas giants to attract and absorb asteroids, and we have an abundance of water. These are just a few of the many parameters that need to be met for a planet to sustain life.
Not necessarily. Really those are just parameters that exist on this planet, so life on this planet has evolved to thrive within them. For all we know, there could be a much wider range of life-supporting planets than we think. Microscopic life can exist under very extreme conditions on Earth, so it stands to reason that it's more common in the Universe than more complex macro-lifeforms.
Maybe the Universe is so inhospitable to life because the Universe doesn't have a designer or intended purpose, and life is just something that incidentally occurs here under the right circumstances. There's really no reason why that explanation is any less plausible than yours, and it's more easily testable, so Occam's Razor demands we rule it out before moving on to "Gaud did it."
Furthermore, if you trace any specific process or event back far enough the statistics make it seem really unlikely. That's not really the best way to determine how likely life is. A better way would be to look at the elements in the Universe versus the elements used in biochemistry.
Life is based mostly on carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Carbon can make the greatest range of compounds of just about any atom on the periodic table (making it extremely well-suited to the versatility that organic chemistry requires), and those four elements are among the most abundant in our Universe (Helium is pretty common, too, but its being inert excludes it from most chemical reactions). Taking this into consideration along with the sheer size of the Universe and number of opportunities there must be for the proper conditions to be met, it actually seems that life is inevitable, not impossible, and there's certainly no reason to believe it has to be sparked by anything intelligent.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
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"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
