(June 7, 2014 at 1:38 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 1:38 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I don't disagree with your second sentence, it's the first one that I don't get. What does the existence of life elsewhere have to do with deism? What bearing does it have?
"If it is just us, it's an awful waste of space." -Contact.
I also see "the cosmic lottery" as an alternate hypothesis. If there is no other intelligent life out there, it looks increasingly plausible that we simply lucked out to have the environment and evolutionary turns to get as far as we have.
It would imply a statistical improbability. and therefore a lack of intelligent design.
