So then educate me - where is “no life anywhere else in the universe” even hinted at?
Well first let me say that I've been interested in astronomy for 40+ years. I used to believe in evolution and rejected anything about God. After becoming a Christian I had to re-learn my whole world view. So I searched out the bible to see God saying glorious and amazing things about the Cosmos as I'd heard Carl Sagan say so many times. So what do I find:
Gen 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
So little glorification from God of the universe. It tells me a lot about the glory of the universe vs the glory of God. The fact that it seems to be a side note on the 4th day shows the lack of importance of the cosmos compared to all the rest that the bible says about God and His plan for man.
Does it really make sense from the perspective of some distant planet made on the 4th day that there is a plan for life and salvation etc?