> It happened, so it's possible. As we only have one
> sample, we have
> only speculation as to how improbable it was (and that goes
> for both
> the formation of the universe and abiogenesis).
> What we don't have is any reason at all, in this day
> and age, to give
> up looking for answers, which is what much (not all)
> religion is
> trying to do. The God of the Gaps is alive and well in much
> of the
> world's people, even though the gaps are shrinking. In
> fact, the gaps
> are being kept open on purpose by many, including those
> nasty little
> "faith schools" that teach creationism.
> Charlie
it would seem that extraterrestrial life could exist, according to the drake
equations, but highly unlikely. at least in an infinite universe... that would
explain the fermi paradox because life is so rare that by the time their
signature reached us we would have missed the window, perhaps because we hadn't
evolved yet out on this faraway arm of the milky way and they have entered the
singularity, or...
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