The Hubble deep field photo contained approx 10,000 galaxies, and that in a slice of sky equivelent to looking through the eye of a needle.
http://www.universetoday.com/36610/how-m...iscovered/
It is estimated that there are 190 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each containing roughly 300 billion stars.
So statisically the likelyhood of life(at least what we consider life) arising elsewhere is greater than one.
Lets look at this another way, if life is a self replicating chemical reaction driven by chaos theory to ever greater levels of complexity then it will appear anywhere that chemical reactions can be sustained.
If you subscribe to the goddit theory then he/she/it will put life everywhere it can. Otherwise what is the point of creating a universe this size to accomodate one planet with life?
It would be like building a jumbo jet hanger so you can keep your skateboard in it.
As to whether it would be what we consider "intelligent" life(and I have my doubts as to it arising on Earth). Different story, since the entire 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth has produced just one species out of all the millions that have existed that has created a technological civilization I would suspect it will be very rare.
http://www.universetoday.com/36610/how-m...iscovered/
It is estimated that there are 190 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each containing roughly 300 billion stars.
So statisically the likelyhood of life(at least what we consider life) arising elsewhere is greater than one.
Lets look at this another way, if life is a self replicating chemical reaction driven by chaos theory to ever greater levels of complexity then it will appear anywhere that chemical reactions can be sustained.
If you subscribe to the goddit theory then he/she/it will put life everywhere it can. Otherwise what is the point of creating a universe this size to accomodate one planet with life?
It would be like building a jumbo jet hanger so you can keep your skateboard in it.
As to whether it would be what we consider "intelligent" life(and I have my doubts as to it arising on Earth). Different story, since the entire 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth has produced just one species out of all the millions that have existed that has created a technological civilization I would suspect it will be very rare.
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