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To: Boogieman
You’re still in the same spot you always were, where Earth is the only planet in the universe known to be capable of supporting life.

Yep.

The most "Earth-like" planet ever discovered is almost exactly the same size and mass as Earth and orbits a yellow dwarf star at relatively close to the same orbit. It is called "Venus" and up close it is not very Earth-like.

Methane is common throughout the galaxy. So are organic molecules, even complex organic molecules. Making them is easy. Just take oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and a few other elements, contain them in a high-pressure environment with a heat source, and mix them around for a few million years. Gas giants work really well at that.

How to make the jump from the most complex organic molecules to the simplest living organism is the big unknown. Unless and until we either (a) figure out how to make a living organism from scratch in a laboratory, or (b) find life somewhere else, we have no idea how common or rare life is. It is entirely possible that the rest of the universe is completely sterile.

24 posted on 09/20/2023 6:19:28 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“Unless and until we either (a) figure out how to make a living organism from scratch in a laboratory, or (b) find life somewhere else, we have no idea how common or rare life is. It is entirely possible that the rest of the universe is completely sterile.”

Indeed, but atheists like to pretend they don’t have to demonstrate that, but can take it as a given, simply because their materialist assumptions leave them willfully blind to other possibilities. So they think the axiom “when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true” can be applied, and they just assume life must occur at random. But they have never actually eliminated any non-materialist cause as being impossible, since they do not consider them, so they cannot properly apply that axiom. They are just deluding themselves.


28 posted on 09/21/2023 7:24:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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